Answer:
-31 (perhaps if I 100% knew what I was doing, but this is what I believe the answer should look like based on my research which consisted of me finding out the mechanics of such expressions from a website I found online)
Explanation:
I have never had to solve a question like this, so my answer is to be taken with a grain of salt (bucket full).
When we see that funky symbol over there, we're going to want to do some funky things:
6
∑(-2k + 5)
k=3
So we'll substitute 3 for k, as seen here:
(-2(3) + 5)
But wait! We still got that 6, so we'll throw that in with the 3:
(-2(3 · 6) + 5)
From here, we PEMDAS or whatever you prefer until we're done!
(-2(18) + 5)
(-36 + 5)
(-31)
-31
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