SOLUTION: Please help me with working out this: The sum of three consecutive natural numbers is 96. Find the numbers

Question 342355: Please help me with working out this: The sum of three consecutive natural numbers is 96. Find the numbers
Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let the 3 consecutive number be x, x+1, x+2.

you get:

x + x + 1 + x + 2 = 96

combine like terms to get:

3*x + 3 = 96

subtract 3 from both sides of the equation to get:

3*x = 93

divide both sides of the equation by 3 to get:

x = 31

substitute for x in your original equation to get:

31 + 32 + 33 = 96 which is true, so the value for x is good.

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