Question

Parikh is teaching an interesting question. It is about decreasing arithmetic progression. He says- “Let us take any decreasing arithmetic progression where sum of all its terms, except for the first term, is equal to -36. And sum of all its terms, except for the last term, is zero. And the difference of the tenth and the sixth term is equal to -16, then what will be the first term of this series.” Can you solve this question

Answer 1

Answer:

0 is the first term of this arithmetic progression