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Re: What is the value of 1/(1*2*3)+1/(2*3*4)+...+1/(48*49*50)? [#permalink]
I think this is a 700 level question, its not easy to come up with a quick strategy where you can solve such a problem in almost 2.5 minutes
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Re: What is the value of 1/(1*2*3)+1/(2*3*4)+...+1/(48*49*50)? [#permalink]
koenh wrote:
For questions such as these with long multiplication or lots of arithmetic I prefer to use approximation.

A = 1/1*2*3 + 1/2*3*4 + 1/3*4*5 .. + .. 1/48*49*50
A = 1/6 + 1/24 + 1/60 ...
A = 5/24 + 1/60 ...

Now 5/24 > 4/24 > 1/6. Since the remaining numbers to be added are all relatively small I think it's fair to assume that our answer will be slightly larger than 1/6 but smaller than 1/5. So 1/6 < x < 1/5.

Out of the available answer choices the only one that comes close is 306/1225.

Answer --> Option A.



But 5/24 is already > than 1/5, not smaller
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I think this is a 700 level question, its not easy to come up with a quick strategy where you can solve such a problem in almost 2.5 minutes


This is not a GMAT-type question.
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