Finding the sum of a telescoping series

[Frillth]

I got the following problem for my Calculus course:

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I know the answer to this is 2, but I can't seem to make any headway in this problem. Can somebody give me a hint?

 

[StatusX]

Do you know what a telescoping series is? It looks like that series is pretty close to one.