SOLUTION: A student is building a bookcase with stuff shells for her dorm room she buys a 48 inch board and wants to cut the board into three pieces with length equal to three consecutive ev

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Question 1092378: A student is building a bookcase with stuff shells for her dorm room she buys a 48 inch board and wants to cut the board into three pieces with length equal to three consecutive even integers find the three board length
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HINT. Of three consecutive even integer the middle number is always one third of the sum of the three numbers.


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Of three consecutive integer numbers the middle number is always one third of the sum of the three numbers.

Of three consecutive odd integer numbers the middle number is always one third of the sum of the three numbers.

Of three consecutive terms of any arithmetic progression the middle term is always one third of the sum of the three numbers.

Of three consecutive terms of any arithmetic progression the middle term is always one half of the sum of its neighbors.