There is no sequence of adds or subtracts of 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10 that sum to 1. Check it with this C++ code...
for (int i=0; i<32; ++i) {
int sum = 0;
if (i&1) sum += 5; else sum -= 5;
if (i&2) sum += 6; else sum -= 6;
if (i&4) sum += 8; else sum -= 8;
if (i&8) sum += 9; else sum -= 9;
if (i&16) sum += 10; else sum -= 10;
cout << i << " " << sum << endl;
}
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