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What is the greatest number of consecutive integers whose sum is 45?

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What is the greatest number of consecutive integers whose sum is 45? [#permalink] New post   23 Mar 2019, 10:17
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Re: What is the greatest number of consecutive integers whose sum is 45? [#permalink] New post   24 Mar 2019, 18:31
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Re: What is the greatest number of consecutive integers whose sum is 45? [#permalink] New post   14 May 2019, 13:20
Hello!

I was redirected to this page from the other recent post.

I realised that despite the same questions, they have completely different answers. I totally understand how do we arrive at the answer 45 but I'm still scratching my head on how to get to answer of 26 from the other post?

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Re: What is the greatest number of consecutive integers whose sum is 45? [#permalink] New post   14 May 2019, 21:32
Noshad wrote:
What is the greatest number of consecutive integers whose sum is 45?

(A) 9 (B) 25 (C) 45 (D) 90 (E) 120



Not sure whether GMAT asks this type of question but it is tricky.

At first glance this question stumped me, I knew the sum of first 9 numbers is 45

Formula ---> n(n+1)/2

but the question does not state only positive integers rather it mentions consecutive numbers. So numbers could be positive and negative

-44 to +45
total of 90 numbers

-44 to -1 = 44 numbers
---> 0 = 1 number
1 to 45 = 45 numbers
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Re: What is the greatest number of consecutive integers whose sum is 45? [#permalink] New post   16 May 2019, 20:02
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Noshad wrote:
What is the greatest number of consecutive integers whose sum is 45?

(A) 9 (B) 25 (C) 45 (D) 90 (E) 120


If we have the consecutive integers from -44 to 44, the sum is zero. Adding in 45, the sum becomes 45.

So the number of integers is 45 - (-44) + 1 = 90.

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