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CAPE Pure Mathematics Unit 2 · May/June 2013 · Paper 2 · Question 3(b)(i)a)

Let k > 0 and let f(k) = \frac{1}{k^2}. Show that f(k) - f(k+1) = \frac{2k+1}{k^2(k+1)^2}.

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