Answer:
-42 is the ninth term
Explanation:
You need to find patterns in these kinds of problems. What do you do to the number to get to the next one? In this case, you are subtracting 5 from every number to get to the next. Therefore, to get to the ninth number, you must continue the pattern like this:
-2 (now subtract 5), -7 (subtract 5), -12 (-5), -17 (-5), -22 (-5), -27 (-5), -32 (-5), -37 (-5), -42 (-5)