Fantastic Five
The sum of five real numbers is 6, and the sum of their squares is 20. Let a and b be the minimum and maximum values, respectively, of any one of the numbers. Then can be written as , where m and n are positive coprime integers. Find .
The answer is 17.
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1 solution
let x-2,x-1,x,x+1,x+2 be the five real no"s their sum will be 5x=6 => x=6/5 smallest will be a=x-2 largest will be b=x+2...............................put values and get ur result....