The product of five different integers is –80. What is the least possible sum of the integers? Is it possible for the product of four different integers to be –80?

Can someone please EXPLAIN how to do this problem, as well as others like it?

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The product of five different integers is –80. What is the least possible sum of the integers? Is it possible for the product of four different integers to be –80?

Can someone please EXPLAIN how to do this problem, as well as others like it?

anonymous · Answer

The only way to get five different integers would be to make some of them negative. For example you could use -1, 1, 4, -4, and -5..