2019 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 8

Problem

Let $f(x) = x^{2}(1-x)^{2}$ . What is the value of the sum $f(\frac{1}{2019})-f(\frac{2}{2019})+f(\frac{3}{2019})-f(\frac{4}{2019})+\cdots$

$+ f(\frac{2017}{2019}) - f(\frac{2018}{2019})$ ?

(A) $0$ , (B) $\frac{1}{2019^{4}}$ , (C) $\frac{2018^{2}}{2019^{4}}$ , (D) $\frac{2020^{2}}{2019^{4}}$ , (E) $1$ .

Note that $f(x) = f(1-x)$ . We can see from this that the terms cancel and the answer is $\boxed{(A) 0}

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