document.write( "Question 344116: if the sum of three consecutive integers is 69, what is the integer? \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "You set up a relationship between three integers and then you ask the identity of \"the\" integer. Which one? Did you simply not read what you wrote before you submitted the question?\r
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represent the smallest integer. Then

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are the next two consecutive integers.\r
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to get the smallest integer.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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