Mary Fairfax Somervilee was a nineteenth century mathematician in

Question

England. To discover the year in which she was awarded a silver
medal for her solution to the Diophantine equation, find the value
of the following expression:
3(1 + 3 + 5 + ... + 51) - 221

Answer 1

3(1 + 3 + 5 + ... + 51) - 221
= 3(672) - 221
= 1807

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