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**kingman** · August 12th 2010, 08:23 AM

Dear Sir
I would be grateful if you can help me to find f(r) in the below questions
thanks
Kingsman

Sum to the n terms of the series using difference method of telescope method .(hint Express the nth term = f(r)-f(r+1))

**Also sprach Zarathustra** · August 12th 2010, 09:52 AM

(not true) sorry

**kingman** · August 12th 2010, 05:27 PM

Thanks .
Incidentally there an an unwanted number 1 at the end of the series .Here the corrected series.Thanks

**PaulRS** · August 16th 2010, 10:18 AM

What is $\frac{1}{1-x^k} - \frac{1}{1-x^{k+1}}$ ?

Relate it to your series.

**kingman** · August 16th 2010, 12:28 PM

thanks very much for the hint but I would be grateful if you can show me how to break the function into f(k)-f(k+1).
thanks very much.

**Archie Meade** · August 16th 2010, 01:54 PM

$\displaystyle\huge\frac{x}{(1-x)\left(1-x^2\right)}+\frac{x^2}{\left(1-x^2\right)\left(1-x^3\right)}+\frac{x^3}{\left(1-x^3\right)\left(1-x^4\right)}+.....\frac{x^k}{\left(1-x^k\right)\left(1-x^{k+1}\right)}$

$=\displaystyle\huge\frac{1}{1-x}\left[\frac{x}{\left(1-x^2\right)}+\frac{x^2(1-x)}{\left(1-x^2\right)\left(1-x^3\right)}+\frac{x^3(1-x)}{\left(1-x^3\right)\left(1-x^4\right)}+....\frac{x^k(1-x)}{\left(1-x^k\right)\left(1-x^{k+1}\right)}\right]$

$=\displaystyle\huge\frac{1}{1-x}\left[\frac{x}{\left(1-x^2\right)}+\frac{x^2-x^3}{\left(1-x^2\right)\left(1-x^3\right)}+\frac{x^3-x^4}{\left(1-x^3\right)\left(1-x^4\right)}+...\right]$

$=\displaystyle\huge\frac{1}{1-x}\left[\frac{x}{1-x^2}+\frac{x^2}{1-x^2}-\frac{x^3}{1-x^3}+\frac{x^3}{1-x^3}-\frac{x^4}{1-x^4}+\frac{x^4}{1-x^4}-.....\right]$

$=\displaystyle\huge\frac{1}{1-x}\left[\frac{x(1+x)}{(1-x)(1+x)}-\frac{x^{k+1}}{1-x^{k+1}}\right]=\frac{x}{(1-x)^2}-\frac{x^{k+1}}{(1-x)\left(1-x^{k+1}\right)}$

**PaulRS** · August 16th 2010, 05:53 PM

We have $\frac{1}{1-x^k}-\frac{1}{1-x^{k+1}} = \frac{x^k-x^{k+1}}{(1-x^k)\cdot (1-x^{k+1})}= (1-x)\cdot \frac{x^k}{(1-x^k)\cdot (1-x^{k+1})}$ .

Hence choosing $f(k)=\tfrac{1}{1-x}\cdot \frac{1}{1-x^k}$ works because $f(k)-f(k+1)=\frac{x^k}{(1-x^k)\cdot (1-x^{k+1})}$

Then $\sum_{k=1}^n\frac{x^k}{(1-x^k)\cdot (1-x^{k+1})} = \sum_{k=1}^n\left(f(k)-f(k+1)\right)=f(1)-f(n+1)=\tfrac{1}{1-x}\cdot \left(\tfrac{1}{1-x}-\tfrac{1}{1-x^{n+1}}\right)$

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