My youngest son is in $6$th grade. He likes to play with numbers. Today, he showed me his latest finding. I call it his "Sum of Some" because he adds up some selected numbers from a series of numbers, and the sum equals a later number in that same series. I have translated his finding into the following equation: $$(100\times2^n)+(10\times2^{n+1})+2^{n+3}=2^{n+7}.$$
Why is this so? What is the proof or explanation? Is it true for any $n$?
His own presentation of his finding:
Every one of these numbers is two times the number before it. $1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192$.
I pick any one of them, times $100$. Then I add the next one, times $10$. Then I skip the next one. Then I add the one after that.
If I then skip three ones and read the fourth, that one equals my sum!