document.write( "Question 167558: I am thinking of three consecutive negative numbers. If I multiply the first with the second and then subtract three times the third, the result is 57. What are the numbers? \n" ); document.write( "
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I am thinking of three consecutive negative numbers. If I multiply the first with the second and then subtract three times the third, the result is 57. What are the numbers?\r
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\n" ); document.write( "Let the three numbers be x, x+1 and x+2\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "x(x+1)-3(x+2) = 57\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "x^2+x-3x-6=57
\n" ); document.write( "x^2-2x-63=0\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "x^2-9x+7x-63=0
\n" ); document.write( "(x+7)(x-9)=0
\n" ); document.write( "Hence x = -7 or x=9
\n" ); document.write( "But the three numbers shd be negative.So x= -7
\n" ); document.write( "Hence the three consecutive numbers are -7,-8,-9\r
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