The sum of five consecutive integers is 0. Find the integers. Show your solution.
1 answer:
Answer:
-2, -1, 0, 1, 2.
Solution
Let x be the middle term of this sequence of 5 terms.
Then the sequence is x-2, x-1, x, x+1, x+2.
The sum of the terms is (x-2) + (x-1) + x + (x+1) + (x+2) = 5x.
Thus 5x = 0.
It gives x = 0.
So the sequence is -2, -1, 0, 1, 2.
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