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2016 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 8

Find the value of the expression

Solution
We can group each subtracting pair together:

After subtracting, we have:

There are even numbers, therefore there are even pairs. Therefore the sum

is

Solution 2
Since our list does not end with one, we divide every number by 2 and we end up with We
can group each subtracting pair together:

There are now pairs of numbers, and the value of each pair is . This sum is .
However, we divided by originally so we will multiply to get the final answer of

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