Use Gauss’s approach to find the following sums. Do this without using formulas. (a) 1 + 2 + 3 + · · · + 71 (b) 1 + 3 + 5 + · · · + 2021

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Use Gauss’s approach to find the following sums. Do this without using formulas.
(a) 1 + 2 + 3 + · · · + 71
(b) 1 + 3 + 5 + · · · + 2021

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