| Exam Board | Edexcel |
| Module | F2 (Further Pure Mathematics 2) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Session | January |
| Topic | Sequences and series, recurrence and convergence |
2. (a) Show that, for \(r > 0\)
$$\frac { r + 2 } { r ( r + 1 ) } - \frac { r + 3 } { ( r + 1 ) ( r + 2 ) } = \frac { r + 4 } { r ( r + 1 ) ( r + 2 ) }$$
(b) Hence show that
$$\sum _ { r = 1 } ^ { n } \frac { r + 4 } { r ( r + 1 ) ( r + 2 ) } = \frac { n ( a n + b ) } { c ( n + 1 ) ( n + 2 ) }$$
where \(a\), \(b\) and \(c\) are integers to be determined.