| Exam Board | OCR |
| Module | FP1 (Further Pure Mathematics 1) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Session | January |
| Topic | Sequences and series, recurrence and convergence |
3 Use the standard results for \(\sum _ { r = 1 } ^ { n } r\) and \(\sum _ { r = 1 } ^ { n } r ^ { 3 }\) to find
$$\sum _ { r = 1 } ^ { n } r ( r - 1 ) ( r + 1 ) ,$$
expressing your answer in a fully factorised form.