Given a series of natural numbers divided into groups as: (1, 2), (3, 4, 5, 6), (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12), (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)..... and so on. Given a number N, the task is to find the sum of the numbers in the Nth group.
Examples:
Input : N = 3 Output : 57 Numbers in 3rd group are: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Input : N = 10 Output : 2010
The first group has 2 terms,
the second group has 4 terms,
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the nth group has 2n terms.
Now,
The last term of the first group is 2 = 1 × (1 + 1)
The last term of the second group is 6 = 2 × (2 + 1)
The last term of the third group is 12 = 3 × (3 + 1)
The last term of the fourth group is 20 = 4 × (4 + 1)
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The last term of the nth group = n(n + 1).
Therefore, the sum of the numbers in the nth group is:
= sum of all the numbers upto nth group - sum of all the numbers upto (n - 1)th group
= [1 + 2 +........+ n(n + 1)] - [1 + 2 +........+ (n - 1 )((n - 1) + 1)]
=\frac{n(n+1)[n(n+1)+1]}{2} - \frac {n(n-1)[n(n-1)+1]}{2}
=\frac{n[(n+1)(n(n+1)+1)-(n-1)(n(n-1)+1)]}{2}
=\frac{n[n[(n+1)^{2} - (n-1)^{2}]+2]}{2}
=n(2n^{2}+1)
Below is the implementation of the above approach:
// C++ program to find sum in Nth group
#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
//calculate sum of Nth group
int nth_group(int n){
return n * (2 * pow(n, 2) + 1);
}
//Driver code
int main()
{
int N = 5;
cout<<nth_group(N);
return 0;
}
// Java program to find sum
// in Nth group
import java.util.*;
class GFG
{
// calculate sum of Nth group
static int nth_group(int n)
{
return n * (2 * (int)Math.pow(n, 2) + 1);
}
// Driver code
public static void main(String arr[])
{
int N = 5;
System.out.println(nth_group(N));
}
}
// This code is contributed by Surendra
# Python program to find sum in Nth group
# calculate sum of Nth group
def nth_group(n):
return n * (2 * pow(n, 2) + 1)
# Driver code
N = 5
print(nth_group(N))
// C# program to find sum in Nth group
using System;
class gfg
{
//calculate sum of Nth group
public static double nth_group(int n)
{
return n * (2 * Math.Pow(n, 2) + 1);
}
//Driver code
public static int Main()
{
int N = 5;
Console.WriteLine(nth_group(N));
return 0;
}
}
// This code is contributed by Soumik
<?php
// PHP program to find sum
// in Nth group
// calculate sum of Nth group
function nth_group($n)
{
return $n * (2 * pow($n, 2) + 1);
}
// Driver code
$N = 5;
echo nth_group($N);
// This code is contributed
// by jit_t
?>
<script>
// Javascript program to find sum in Nth group
//calculate sum of Nth group
function nth_group(n)
{
return n * (2 * Math.pow(n, 2) + 1);
}
let N = 5;
document.write(nth_group(N));
</script>
Output:
255
Time Complexity: O(1)
Auxiliary Space: O(1)