Sum of consecutive integers..

This one is a very very simple one for nay one in class xi-xii but ffor the sub xi guys..

Write 105 as teh sum of consecutive integers in 8 ways...

Dont just give the answer but also think why it works!

15 Answers

1
student ·

:o

it turns out to be a hyperbola equation

and we have to find the lattice points on hyperbola [12]

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Lokesh Verma ·

hmm.. that to me seems so non intuitive..

I am sure there is a better and much more simpler way to think if you could do something better..

Waise I am sorry if the impression i gave by the comment in the question was that it is intuitive to figure out why there are 8 solutions!

1
student ·

thanks for ur comments

it was encouraging

agreed am a dumbass

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Lokesh Verma ·

dude.. you are far from it!

again sorry if i gave a wrong impression..

waise on the second thought, you have come very close to the explanation to why there are 8 solutions :)

11
Devil ·

8 divisors of 105.

1
student ·

i think prime factorisation of 210 will be fruitful

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Lokesh Verma ·

@rpf yup

@soumik... why have u ignored -ve factors,, and y have u taken 105 not 210?

1
student ·

so the problem boils down ro two break 2*3*5*7 in two factors

by combinotrics its easy to see the numbers of ways is

p=2x3y5z7w
p'=2a3b5c7d

so it is simultenous solution of integral equations

so answer is 24=16

so i guess not 8 but 16 solutions exist for positive integres

so on total 32 solutions [11]

11
Devil ·

Ultimate thing is to solve

2nx+n(n-1)x=210.. n is a natural, x is an integer.

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Lokesh Verma ·

@rpf.. you are coming closer to the answer... first look yes 32 should be the answer.. but think again of what the two terms stand for? :)

1
student ·

didnt get

sir , i think u have wrongly seen that they are consequitive

they are x-y and x+y-1 ! [1]

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Lokesh Verma ·

no i havent wrongly seen that..

see what i am trying to say is that

what do x-y and x+y-1 represent?

1
harsh jindal ·

{105}
{52,53}
{34,35,36}
{19,20,21,22,23}
{12,13,14,15,16,17,18}
{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14}
{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14}
{-5,-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15}
{-11,-10,-9,-8,-7,-6,-5,-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18}
{-14,-13,-12,-11,-10,-9,-8,-7,-6,-5,-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20}
there are more than 8 ways[4]

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Lokesh Verma ·

okie. harsh.. goof up agreed [3]

but now the question is to find the number of ways and justify that number [4]

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qwerty ·

RPF , i got ur approach wen u explained it to me in the chatbox ,but

it shud be \frac{x(x+1)}{2}-\frac{y(y-1)}{2}=105
where x = last term and y = first term ????

and so (x+y)(x-y+1)=210

it shud be dis way na ??[7]

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