2018 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 5
Problem 5
What is the value of 
?
Solution
Rearranging the terms, we get 
, and our answer is 
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Solution 2 (slightly different)
We can rewrite the given expression as 
. The number of 
s is the same as the number of terms in 
. Thus the answer is 
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