Posted by Gloria on Monday, June 11, 2012 at 9:07am.
sum of first 5 natural numbers = (5)(6)/2
sum of first 21 natural numbers = (21)(22)/2
sum of first 30 natural numbers = 465 = (30)(31)/2
sum of first n natural numbers = (n)(n+1)/2 -- provable by induction
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