{"id":3336,"date":"2012-03-19T11:57:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T15:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:45:08","slug":"the-math-beast-challenge-problem-of-the-week-march-19th-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/the-math-beast-challenge-problem-of-the-week-march-19th-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Math Beast Challenge Problem of the Week &#8211; March 19th, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/cdn.manhattanprep.com\/images\/gre\/gre_math_beast(1).png\" alt=\"Math Beast\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>Each week, we post a new Challenge Problem for you to attempt. If you submit the correct answer, you will be entered into that week&#8217;s drawing for two free Manhattan Prep GRE Strategy Guides.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sequence of numbers\u00a0<em>a<\/em><sub>1<\/sub>,\u00a0<em>a<\/em><sub>2<\/sub>,\u00a0<em>a<\/em><sub>3<\/sub>, &#8230;,\u00a0<em>a<\/em><sub><em>n<\/em><\/sub>, &#8230; is defined by\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/cdn.manhattanprep.com\/images\/gre\/Challenge\/20120319\/comparisum-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"32\" align=\"absMiddle\" \/>\u00a0for each integer\u00a0<em>n<\/em>\u00a0\u00e2\u2030\u00a5 1.<\/p>\n<p>Quantity A<br \/>\nThe sum of the first 20 terms of this sequence<\/p>\n<p>Quantity B<br \/>\nThe sum of the first 19 terms of this sequence\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>See the answer choices and submit your pick over on our <a href=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/challenge_thisweek.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Challenge Problem<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, we post a new Challenge Problem for you to attempt. If you submit the correct answer, you will be entered into that week&#8217;s drawing for two free Manhattan Prep GRE Strategy Guides. The sequence of numbers\u00a0a1,\u00a0a2,\u00a0a3, &#8230;,\u00a0an, &#8230; is defined by\u00a0\u00a0for each integer\u00a0n\u00a0\u00e2\u2030\u00a5 1. Quantity A The sum of the first 20 terms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenge-problems","category-gre-strategies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7136,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions\/7136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}