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prealgebra intermediate

Problem

If and is an integer, what is the sum of all the possible solutions?
Solution
We simplify the inequality by subtracting from all 3 values to yield The integers in this range are the possible solutions, and to find their sum, notice that we can group certain numbers with their opposite to sum to 0, namely Since these numbers contribute a sum of , we now only need to find the sum of the integers from to . Their sum is , and hence our answer is .
Final answer
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