document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=378579>Question 378579</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Find three consecutive even intergers cush that the sum of the mallest and the largest is 36 </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "What a delightfully quaint way of utterly trashing the English language.  What did English ever do to you that you should treat it in such a shabby fashion?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I don't know what an <i>interger</i> is.  \"cush\" that?  \"mallest\"?  Is that the \"interger\" that hangs out at the mall the most?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Let's proceed on the assumption that you really meant to say:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<i>Find three consecutive even integers such that the sum of the smallest and the largest is 36.</i>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Let <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\"> represent the smallest of the three consecutive integers.  Then <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\ +\ 2\"> must be the next larger, and <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\ +\ 4\"> must be the largest.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ x\ +\ x\ +\ 4\ =\ 36\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Solve for <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\"> to find the smallest, then count by 2s to get the other two.\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" );
document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it<BR>\n" );
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