document.write( "Question 456755: find three consecutive even integers such that 4 times the first decreased by the second is 12 more than the third? \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "\"find three consecutive even integers\"
\n" ); document.write( "x, (x+2), (x+4)
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\n" ); document.write( "\"is such that 4 times the first decreased by the second is 12 more than the third?\"
\n" ); document.write( "4x - (x+2) = (x+4) + 12
\n" ); document.write( "4x - x - 2 = x + 4 + 12
\n" ); document.write( "3x - 2 = x + 16
\n" ); document.write( "3x - x = 16 + 2
\n" ); document.write( "2x = 18
\n" ); document.write( "x + $\"18%2F2\"$
\n" ); document.write( "x = 9 is the 1st integer, but that's not even see if the solution checks out
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\n" ); document.write( "4(9) - 11 = 13 + 12
\n" ); document.write( "36 - 11 = 25; seems to check out, perhaps a flaw in the way the problems was written. \n" ); document.write( "

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