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Let 
$X$ and 
$Y$ be Banach spaces and let 
$f\,:\,X\,\to \,Y$ be an odd mapping. For any rational number 
$r\,\ne \,2$, C. Baak, D. H. Boo, and Th. M. Rassias proved the Hyers–Ulam stability of the functional equation
$$rf\left( \frac{\sum\nolimits_{j=1}^{d}{{{x}_{j}}}}{r} \right)\,+\,\sum\limits_{\begin{smallmatrix}
i\left( j \right)\,\in \left\{ 0,\,1 \right\} \\
\sum\nolimits_{j=1}^{d}{i\left( j \right)=\ell }
\end{smallmatrix}}{rf\left( \frac{\sum\nolimits_{j=1}^{d}{{{\left( -1 \right)}^{i\left( j \right)}}{{x}_{j}}}}{r} \right)}\,=\,\left( C_{d-1}^{\ell }\,-\,C_{d-1}^{\ell -1}\,+\,1 \right)\,\sum\limits_{j=1}^{d}{f\left( {{x}_{j}} \right),}$$
where 
$d$ and 
$\ell$ are positive integers so that 
$1\,<\,\ell \,<\,\frac{d}{2}$, and 
$C_{q}^{p}\,:=\frac{q!}{\left( q-p \right)!p!},\,p,\,q\,\in \,\mathbb{N}$ with 
$p\,\le \,q$.
In this note we solve this equation for arbitrary nonzero scalar 
$r$ and show that it is actually
Hyers–Ulam stable. We thus extend and generalize Baak et al.’s result. Other questions concerning
the 
$^{*}$-homomorphisms and the multipliers between 
${{C}^{*}}$-algebras are also considered.
