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Let $S$ be the sum of the first $9$ term of the series :

$\left\{x+ka\right\}+\left\{x^2+\left(k+2\right)a\right\}+\left\{x^3+\left(k+4\right)a\right\}+\left\{x^4+\left(k+6\right)a\right\}+\dots$ where $a\ne 0$ and $x \ne 1$. If $S=\frac{x^{10}-x+45a\left(x-1\right)}{x-1}$ , then $k$ is equal to