A9 year od child prodigy irritated his teacher so she assigned him the task of finding the sum of all the counting numbers from 1 to 100 inclusive to the teacher suprise the child arrived at the correct number within seconds what is the sum? what pattern did the child see to calculate the answer so quickly?

Item 1 which question could the expression 1000n answer? let n = the number of gallons of gas used. how many miles per gallon did the car get driving 1000 miles? let n = the number of grams of food needed for each dog. how many grams of food are needed to feed 1000 dogs? let n = the number of people at the show. how many empty seats were there at the show if there are 1000 seats at the theater? let n = the number of seats at the theater. how many empty seats will there by if 1000 people come to the show?