SOLUTION: In a pair of consecutive even integers, the sum of 3 times the 1st number and 22 is the same as 4 times the 2nd number. What are the numbers?

SOLUTION: In a pair of consecutive even integers, the sum of 3 times the 1st number and 22 is the same as 4 times the 2nd number. What are the numbers?

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Question 910469: In a pair of consecutive even integers, the sum of 3 times the 1st number and 22 is the same as 4 times the 2nd number. What are the numbers?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a pair of consecutive even integers: x and (x+2)
3x + 22 = 4(x+2)
14 = x
the pair of consecutive even integers is: 14, 16
And checking...
64 = 4(16)
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