Question

The sum of nine consecutive integers is 9. What is the smallest of these integers?

Answer 1

-3.

Explanation:

From a number line we see that the smallest integer is -3:

-5 -4 | -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 |

-3 + -2 +-1 +0+1+2+3+4+5

= 9.