What is the solution to this puzzling brain teaser?

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I have been looking at this problem for quite some time and have been unable to figure out how to approach it.

the problem is in the attachment. It's from a brain teaser that my teacher gave us in class and it's so puzzling that I need to know how to do it. Any help would be EXTREMELY appreciated
 
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  • Typed text on white background: the CDF is the integral from minus infinity to x of 1/sqrt(2*pi) * e^(-u^2/2) du, represented as 1/2 + sqrt(2/pi) * x e^(-x^2/2) times the sum from k=0 to infinity of ((2^k)(k+1)!/(2K+2)!) * X^(2K), and the goal is to show this series is an antiderivative of 1/sqrt(2pi) * e^(-x^2/2).
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What you have is the standard Normal probability distribution and a power series expansion for it. You want to show that the series is, in fact, an anti-derivative of the given function. To do that, differentiate the series term by term.
 
How many terms should i differentiate the series too? I brought the problem to my calculus 3 teacher and she was puzzled by it as well.
 
Find the series representation of the antiderivative and sum it out until you see a correspondence in the two expansions.