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OpenStudy (lovelyharmonics):

help... please? :c

OpenStudy (lovelyharmonics):

Find the sum of the arithmetic sequence. -10, -7, -4, -1, 2, 5, 8

OpenStudy (anonymous):

its +3

OpenStudy (lovelyharmonics):

no .-. no its not.....

OpenStudy (anonymous):

It Isnt? o_O -10 + 3 equals -7, because the rule for adding unlike intergers is "different signs, subtract and take the sign of the bigger number. so it has to be +3

OpenStudy (lovelyharmonics):

Youve got 11, -70, 0,and -7 as choices take your pick .-. cuz i wouldhave thought it was +-3 too....

OpenStudy (marigirl):

use this formula (attached) a is the first term d is the difference n is the number of terms

OpenStudy (lovelyharmonics):

so 8/2(2*-10-(8-1)3) or -10+(8-1)3 ?

OpenStudy (lovelyharmonics):

well -10+-60 =-70 which is one of my answers so thankyou

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