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What is the sum of all whole numbers from -100 to 105?


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Okay Ct aspiring math people never question for here ago

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What is the sum of all whole Numbers from negative

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1002 one hundred five All right so this problem just

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asked us to add up negative one hundred and plus

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negative ninety nine and then plus negative ninety eight all

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the way through one o five were just totally kidding

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No test is that cruel way Think problems that initially

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seem like they're asking us to perform ridiculous volumes of

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calculations will usually feature oppa pattern And this one is

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no different Well to find the pattern here imagine that

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we're on ly adding all the images from negative three

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to three Well then that gets us you know negative

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Three plus give two plus negative one and zero one

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and two and three all that equal zero So interesting

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While all the negative numbers yeah they cancel their positive

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counterparts while zero is left Just chilling in the middle

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So just apply this pattern All the Numbers from negative

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102 positive one o five And well we can just

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kind of cross out from negative hundred deposit of one

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hundred and that gets us these last few numbers here

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So if you had him all up well they add

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up to five Fifteen So the answer here it's

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