SOLUTION: Find three consecutive odd integers whose sum is 225

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Question 659952: Find three consecutive odd integers whose sum is 225
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An odd integer:

The next consecutive odd integer:

The next one after that:



Solve for , then calculate and

How did I know that if I just started with that the answers will come out odd? Because the sum of any odd number of odd numbers is odd.

John

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