If a and b are integers and a is even, what is the value

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by Ian Stewart » Mon Apr 29, 2019 3:36 am

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Using both Statements, we might have a=2 and b=7, or we might have a = -2000 and b = -7000, among other possibilities, and we can easily get different values for a-b, so the answer is E.
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