document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=227190>Question 227190</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> If the first and third of three consecutive odd integers are added, the result is 87 less than five times the second integer. Find the third integer.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A) 27 <BR>\n" );
document.write( "B) 58 <BR>\n" );
document.write( "C) 31 <BR>\n" );
document.write( "D) 29 <BR>\n" );
document.write( "E) none of the above\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "If someone could explain this to me, that would be fantastic. My brain is not processing this at all. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Let <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\"> represent the first odd integer.  Then the second consecutive odd integer has to be 2 more than that (if 5 is the first one, 7 is the next and so on), so <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x+2\">.  The third must be two more, i.e. <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large (x+2)+2=x+4\">.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The result of adding the first and the third:  <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x + (x + 4) = 2x + 4\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Five times the second integer is <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large 5(x+2)=5x+10\">.  87 less than that is <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large 5x+10-87=5x-77\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So we can write:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 2x + 4 = 5x - 77\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Now all you need to do is solve for <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\">, then add 2, then add 2 more and you will have the third integer.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "John<BR>\n" );
document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0\"><BR>\n" );
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