An arithmetic progression has first term 50 and common difference .

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Problem

An arithmetic progression has first term 50 and common difference −3-3. (i) Find the least value of nn for which the sum of the first nn terms is zero or negative. (ii) Hence determine the greatest positive sum that can be obtained by adding consecutive terms from the beginning of the progression, and state for how many terms this maximum occurs.

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