OCR FP1 2007 June — Question 5

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleFP1 (Further Pure Mathematics 1)
Year2007
SessionJune
TopicSequences and series, recurrence and convergence

5
  1. Show that $$\frac { 1 } { r } - \frac { 1 } { r + 1 } = \frac { 1 } { r ( r + 1 ) }$$
  2. Hence find an expression, in terms of \(n\), for $$\frac { 1 } { 2 } + \frac { 1 } { 6 } + \frac { 1 } { 12 } + \ldots + \frac { 1 } { n ( n + 1 ) }$$
  3. Hence find the value of \(\sum _ { r = n + 1 } ^ { \infty } \frac { 1 } { r ( r + 1 ) }\).