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by ranjeet75 » Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:15 pm
List K consists of 12 consecutive integers, if -4 is the least integer in list K, what is the range of the positive integers in the list K?

some person taken the series as -4,-3,-2,.......,6,7 and got the answer, Range of positive integer = (7-1)

but i have a question that the consecutive integers may be
-4,-2,0,2,4,,....
or, -4,-1,2,5,,8,.......
etc
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by Anurag@Gurome » Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:20 pm
ranjeet75 wrote:List K consists of 12 consecutive integers, if -4 is the least integer in list K, what is the range of the positive integers in the list K?

some person taken the series as -4,-3,-2,.......,6,7 and got the answer, Range of positive integer = (7-1)

but i have a question that the consecutive integers may be
-4,-2,0,2,4,,....
or, -4,-1,2,5,,8,.......
etc
Consecutive integers are integers that follow each other in order. They have a difference of 1 between every two numbers.

-4,-2,0,2,4,,.... are consecutive even integers. Even consecutive integers are even integers that follow each other. It is mentioned in the question that they are just consecutive integers.
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