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2020 SJI P1 Q7
IB Year 5 | Grade 11
10 marks
A boy claims to have found a function that only produces prime numbers. He then writes the function as
\[\pi(n)=n^2+n+5,\quad n\in\mathbb Z^+.\]
Prove or disprove his claim.
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A girl claims to have discovered a formula that reads
\[\sum_{r=1}^n\frac{r}{(r+1)!}=1-\frac1{(n+1)!},\quad n\in\mathbb Z^+.\]
Prove her discovery using mathematical induction.
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(a) False: \(\pi(4)=25\) (b) Proved by mathematical induction.
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