Posts
Showing posts from April, 2013
Sum of Natural number
- Get link
- X
- Other Apps
Take any 2 circles among the given blue circles. Draw 2 lines inclined at $60 ^{\circ}$ to each other . For every such pair of points we get a corresponding yellow point. If the total number of blue circles is $n$,the number of ways to select 2 circles = $\binom{n}{2}$. Count the total number of yellow circles. Now I guess it is easy to see that: $$1+2+\cdots + (n-1) = \binom{n}{2}$$
Sum of cubes
- Get link
- X
- Other Apps
Let the side of each of the 4 innermost squares be 1. Total area of these squares=$4\times 1\times 1=4\cdot (1)^{3}$ Total area of the squares coloured purple = $8\times 2\times 2= 4\cdot (2)^{3}$ Total area of the squares coloured pink = $12\times 3\times 3= 4\cdot (3)^{3}$ Total area of the outermost squares = $16\times 4\times 4= 4\cdot (4)^{3}$ Total area of all the squares = $$4(1^{3}+2^{3}+3^{3}+4^{3})=4\sum n^{3}$$ The total area is also = {(Side of the outermost square)$\times$(Number of outermost squares accross the length)}$^{2}$ = $(5\times 4)^{2}$ = ${n(n+1)}^{2}$ Therefore, $$\sum n^{3}=\left[\frac{n(n+1)}{2}\right]^{2}=(\sum n)^{2}$$