$\begin{aligned}9.\quad&\textrm{Bilangan}\quad X=\underset{50}{\underbrace{99+999+9999+\cdots +999\cdots 999}}\:. \: \textrm{Berapa banyak}\\ &\textrm{digit 1 muncul pada bilangan}\quad X\\ & \end{aligned}$
Jawaban: $\begin{aligned}&\textrm{Suku-suku dalam dalam deret dapat dinyatakan dengan}:10^{\displaystyle k}-1\\ &\circ \quad99=10^{\displaystyle 2}-1\\ &\circ \quad 999=10^{\displaystyle 3}-1\\ &\circ \quad 9999=10^{\displaystyle 4}-1\\ &\circ \qquad \vdots\\ &\circ \quad \textrm{Suku ke}-50\: \textrm{dengan 51 digit 9}=10^{\displaystyle 51}-1\\ &\textrm{Maka persamaan}\quad X\quad \textrm{dapat dituliskan sebagai}:\\ &X=\left( 10^{\displaystyle 2}-1 \right)+\left( 10^{\displaystyle 3}-1 \right)+\left( 10^{\displaystyle 4}-1 \right)+\cdots +\left( 10^{\displaystyle 51}-1 \right)\\ &\,\quad =10^{\displaystyle 51}+10^{\displaystyle 50}+10^{\displaystyle 49}+\cdots +10^{\displaystyle 4} +10^{\displaystyle 3} +10^{\displaystyle 2}-(1\times 50)\\ &\,\quad =\underset{50\: \textrm{buah angka}\: 1}{\underbrace{111\cdots 111}00}-(1\times 50)\\ &\,\quad =\underset{49\: \textrm{buah angka}\: 1}{\underbrace{111\cdots 111}050}\\ &\textrm{Jadi, banyak digit 1 pada bilangan}\:\: X\:\: \textrm{sebanyak 49} \end{aligned}$
$\begin{aligned}10.\quad&\text{Diberikan}\:\: S=\displaystyle \frac{1+2}{2}+\displaystyle \frac{1+2+3}{2^{\displaystyle 2}}+\displaystyle \frac{1+2+3+4}{2^{\displaystyle 3}}+\cdots \\ &\textrm{Tentukan nilai}\:\: S\end{aligned}$
Jawaban: $\begin{aligned}&\text{Diketahui}\\ &S=\displaystyle \frac{1+2}{2}+\displaystyle \frac{1+2+3}{2^{\displaystyle 2}}+\displaystyle \frac{1+2+3+4}{2^{\displaystyle 3}}+\displaystyle \frac{1+2+3+4+5}{2^{\displaystyle 4}}\cdots \\ &\Leftrightarrow S=\displaystyle \frac{3}{2}+\displaystyle \frac{6}{2^{\displaystyle 2}}+\displaystyle \frac{10}{2^{\displaystyle 3}}+\displaystyle \frac{15}{2^{\displaystyle 4}}+\displaystyle \frac{21}{2^{\displaystyle 5}}+\displaystyle \frac{28}{2^{\displaystyle 6}}+\cdots \\ &\Leftrightarrow \displaystyle \frac{1}{2}S=\displaystyle \frac{3}{2^{\displaystyle 2}}+\displaystyle \frac{6}{2^{\displaystyle 3}}+\displaystyle \frac{10}{2^{\displaystyle 4}}+\displaystyle \frac{15}{2^{\displaystyle 5}}+\displaystyle \frac{21}{2^{\displaystyle 6}}+\cdots \\ &\text{Untuk}\quad S-\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}S=\displaystyle \frac{3}{2}+\displaystyle \frac{6-3}{2^{\displaystyle 2}}+\displaystyle \frac{10-6}{2^{\displaystyle 3}}+\displaystyle \frac{15-10}{2^{\displaystyle 4}}+\displaystyle \frac{21-15}{2^{\displaystyle 5}}+\cdots \\ &\,\:\qquad\qquad \Leftrightarrow \displaystyle \frac{1}{2}S=\displaystyle \frac{3}{2}+\displaystyle \frac{3}{2^{\displaystyle 2}}+\displaystyle \frac{4}{2^{\displaystyle 3}}+\displaystyle \frac{5}{2^{\displaystyle 4}}+\displaystyle \frac{6}{2^{\displaystyle 5}}+\cdots \\ &\textrm{Saat}\quad \displaystyle \frac{1}{2}\left( \displaystyle \frac{1}{2}S \right)=\displaystyle \frac{1}{4}S=\displaystyle \frac{3}{2^{\displaystyle 2}}+\displaystyle \frac{3}{2^{\displaystyle 3}}+\displaystyle \frac{4}{2^{\displaystyle 4}}+\displaystyle \frac{5}{2^{\displaystyle 5}}+\cdots \\ &\textrm{dan}\: \left( \displaystyle \frac{1}{2}S-\displaystyle \frac{1}{4}S \right)=\displaystyle \frac{1}{4}S=\displaystyle \frac{3}{2}+0+\displaystyle \frac{1}{2^{\displaystyle 3}}+\displaystyle \frac{1}{2^{\displaystyle 4}}+\displaystyle \frac{1}{2^{\displaystyle 5}}+\cdots \\ &\Leftrightarrow \displaystyle \frac{1}{4}S=\displaystyle \frac{3}{2}+\underset{\textrm{deret geometri tak hingga}}{\underbrace{\displaystyle \frac{\displaystyle \frac{1}{2^{\displaystyle 3}}}{1-\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}}}}\\ &\Leftrightarrow \displaystyle \frac{1}{4}S=\displaystyle \frac{3}{2}+\displaystyle \frac{1}{4}\qquad (\textrm{masing-masing ruas dikali 4})\\ &\Leftrightarrow S=6+1=7\\ &\textrm{Jadi, nilai}\quad S=7\end{aligned}$