RE: nomlungu............6 Apr 2019 00:13
It's impossible, unless you use some non-standard definition for 'odd'. Note that by definition, a number n is odd if there exists some integer k such that
n = 2*k + 1
Given that definition, the sum of 5 odd numbers looks like this:
(2a+1) + (2b+1) + (2c+1) + (2d+1) + (2e+1)
= 2(a+b+c+d+e) + 5
= 2(a+b+c+d+e+2) + 1
which, by definition, is an odd number. So if you just stay within standard base 10 arithmetic, there is no solution.