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539. Find the Nth-term in a given arithmetic progression

Given a first element a and common difference d of an arithmetic progression. Write a program to find the nth term in that progression. 

wiki:

An arithmetic progression or arithmetic sequence is a sequence of numbers such that the difference between the consecutive terms is constant. For instance, the sequence 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, . . . is an arithmetic progression with a common difference of 2.

Example: 

a = 1, d = 2, n = 5
output: 9

a = 2, d = 5, n = 4
output: 17

Solution: 

The formula for finding the nth term in an arithmetic progression:

Nth term = a + (n-1)*d.

Output:

a = 1, d = 2, n = 5
5th term: 9
a = 2, d = 5, n = 4
4th term: 17

Reference: wiki

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