-24x. This is an example of a "telescoping series". If you notice, the last and first part of each term cancel out. Take away the parenthesis and you'll see it. x-3x+3x-5x+5x-7x+7x... everything goes away except x-25x so it's -24x.
Monitors manufactured by tsi electronics have life spans that have a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 1800 hours and a mean life span of 20,000 hours. if a monitor is selected at random, find the probability that the life span of the monitor will be more than 17,659 hours. round your answer to four decimal places.