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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 4 months ago
Given:
Sum of first p terms of an AP = q
Sum of first q terms = p
To find:
Sum of (p + q) terms = ?
Solution:
The sum of first p term of AP is q, which means that the number of terms is p
Thereby, let us take the first term as A and the common difference d
The sum of first q term of AP is p, which means that the number of terms is q
Thereby, let us take the first term as A and the common difference d
Therefore, the sum
Subtracting the sum of the term , p and q
After solving the equation we get the value of d as
Now with
, first value of the series is a and the number of terms is 
Therefore, the sum is
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