What is the sum of the first 70 consecutive odd numbers?

2 answers

1 through 2*70 - 1 or 139 figure that out by experiment

average = (1+139)/2 = 70

70 * 70 = 4900
By the way
what we really did was :

n[(n*2-1)+1 ]/2

which is n^2

or 70^2