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What are 5 odd nos between 1 to 19 are adding equal to 50?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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Arabinda1122

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It's impossible. Adding 5 odd numbers will always result in an odd number. 50 is an even number. Here's how. Let the five odd numbers be:

2a+1, 2b+1, 2c+1, 2d+1, and 2e+1; where a,b,c,d & e are any whole numbers. This guarantees that they are odd, since multiplying by 2 gets and even then an even plus one will be an odd. So we have 2a+1+2b+1+2c+1+2d+1+2e+1. Rearranging we have 2a+2b+2c+2d+2e+5 = 2(a+b+c+d+e) + 5. So 2(a+b+c+d+e) is even, then you add 5 and it's odd.

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