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1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22+23+24+25+26+27+28+29+30=

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Answer:

Solution:

The greatest of Winnie's even numbers is $2\times 30 = 60,$ so her sum is

\[2+4+6+\cdots + 58 + 60.\]For Grogg's sum, there are five odd numbers between $0$ and $-10$, five between $-10$ and $-20$, and so on, so Grogg's sum is

\[(-1)+(-3)+(-5)+\cdots+(-57)+(-59).\]

We could compute these sums separately and find their difference, but instead, we'll look for a clever way to regroup to compute the difference

\[(2+4+6+\cdots +58+60)-((-1)+(-3)+(-5)+\cdots +(-57)+(-59)).\]Noting that Winnie's list steps up by 2 at each term while Grogg's steps down by 2 at each step, we write Winnie's list backwards, so that each list goes down by 2 at each step:

\[(60+58+56+\cdots + 4+2) - ((-1)+(-3)+(-5)+\cdots +(-57)+(-59)).\]Now, we see that the difference between a term in Winnie's backwards list and the corresponding term in Grogg's list is always the same:

\begin{align*}

60-(-1) &= 61,\\

58-(-3) &= 61,\\

56-(-5) &=61,\\

\vdots&\\

2-(-59) &= 61.

\end{align*}There are 30 such differences, so Winnie's sum is $30\times 61 = \boxed{1{,}830}$ greater than Grogg's sum.

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User Rohith K
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Answer: 465

Step-by-step explanation: thx for the free points :)

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