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UKMT Junior Mathematical Olympiad, 2016

Algebra Difficulty 2.0 Junior Prove it United Kingdom

The first term of a sequence is 0. Each term of the sequence after the first term is equal to $10p + 1$ , where $p$ is the previous term. What is the sum of the first ten terms?

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