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Compute the partial sum of an arithmetic sequence by Hannah Aldous

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Christian Lawson-Perfect	said	Ready to use	7 years, 4 months ago
Elliott Fletcher	said	Needs to be tested	7 years, 5 months ago
Chris Graham	said	Has some problems	7 years, 5 months ago
Hannah Aldous	said	Needs to be tested	7 years, 5 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect 7 years, 4 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect 7 years, 4 months ago

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Elliott Fletcher 7 years, 5 months ago

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Chris Graham commented 7 years, 5 months ago

Ok, so we'e basically torn up and re-written the original question... This looks good, however as for previous questions on arithmetic series, can we have a table of the values and differences in the advice to part (a) please.

I would change "by his" in the statement to "after his", as it implies the amount before he receives money on his birthday. I know that you state that it includes the amount after, but this appears contradictory.

I'm not keen on $n$ being "the amount of numbers in a sequence". So if you have 10 terms in the sequence but you're calculating the $a_5$ term, do you still use $n=10$? "Term number" is terminology that is often used.

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Chris Graham commented 7 years, 5 months ago

Sorry, you are quite right, I meant to say interest! If you are wording the question in a way that it is "What contribution...?" then you don't really need this anyway, so I have removed those references.

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Elliott Fletcher 7 years, 5 months ago

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Elliott Fletcher commented 7 years, 5 months ago

Is inflation the right term that we need or should it be interest?

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Chris Graham commented 7 years, 5 months ago

As discussed, the sum of candles on a birthday cake over several years makes little sense either. Why would you want to know?

Parents adding money to a bank account is much better, and then you could ask (excluding inflation) how much money the parents have added over $n$ years.

This can also be split into two parts, firstly calculate $a_n$ for the given $n$, and then the sum of the series, with a step for each part.

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Chris Graham commented 7 years, 5 months ago

The step doesn't give enough useful information, and neither does it give the opportunity for the student to break down the question: so the first step would be to find $a_n$, but the step doesn't tell me how to do that. There's an easy opportunity to have gaps here for the common difference, the final term, and so on.

I also have major issues with the context. I'm led to believe Bruce receives 93 slices of his birthday cake on his 50th birthday. How big are these slices? I can only assume that they are getting smaller at a rate inversely proportional to the increase in slices. How about changing to the number of candles? 93 candles on a cake is still a stretch, but slightly more plausible.

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Created this as a copy of Compute the partial sum of an arithmetic sequence.

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Compute the partial sum of an arithmetic sequence	Ready to use	Hannah Aldous	20/11/2019 14:36
Finding the $n^{\text{th}}$ Term of a Quadratic Sequence	Ready to use	Hannah Aldous	20/11/2019 14:39
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Find a particular term of a sequence using the given formula	Ready to use	Christian Lawson-Perfect	20/11/2019 14:38
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Simon's copy of Write down and apply the formula for an arithmetic sequence.	draft	Simon Thomas	25/02/2019 10:20
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Finding the formula for the $n^{\text{th}}$ term of linear sequences	draft	Xiaodan Leng	11/07/2019 01:55
Find a particular term of a sequence using the given formula	draft	Xiaodan Leng	11/07/2019 01:56
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