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Question 115

A student has written a program to compute and output the sum of the squares of the first n n\,n positive integers, Sn=∑r=1nr2S_n = \sum_{r=1}^{n} r^2Sn​=∑r=1n​r2, for a user-entered positive integer nnn.

Figure 1 shows the student's program.

1  n = int(input("Enter a positive integer: "))
2  total_sum = 0
3  r = 1
4  while r < n:
5      total_sum = total_sum + r**2
6      r = r + 1
7  print(total_sum)

Describe how line 4 should be changed so that the program in Figure 1 works correctly.

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