<s>[INST] What is the sum of $100$ terms of the sequence $a_{k} = \frac{1}{k} - \frac{1}{k+1}$? In the sequence $a_{1}, a_{2}, a_{3}, ..., a_{100}$, the $k$th term is defined by $$a_{k} = \frac{1}{k} - \frac{1}{k+1}$$ for all integers $k$ from $1$ through $100$. What is the sum of $100$ terms of this sequence? 
The answer given is $\frac{100}{101}$, but I am not sure how.
So far I am have plugged in the values of $k's$ and have the following values $$\frac{1}{2}, \frac{1}{6}, \frac{1}{12}, \frac{1}{12}, \frac{1}{20}, \frac{1}{30},....$$
The numerator makes sense to me as it's just $1$ and $100 \times 1 = 100$, however, I am not sure about the denominator. 
 [/INST] Such a sum is called  telescop sum. We have
$$\sum_{k=1}^{100} \left( \frac{1}{k}- \frac{1}{k+1} \right) \stackrel{\star}{=}1 - \frac{1}{101}.$$
In $(\star)$ we split the sum into two and make an index shift.
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