SOLUTION: Write the following as an algrebraic expression, Then simplify. The sum of three even consecutive integers if the first integer is y.

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Question 230222: Write the following as an algrebraic expression, Then simplify.
The sum of three even consecutive integers if the first integer is y.
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The sum of three consecutive EVEN integers where the first integer is y.

Let y = first integer
y+2= second integer
y+4=third integer

Add them up and you get y+y+2+y=4
Combine like terms, and you get 3y+6 for the sum of the integers. You still can't find the sum unless you know what y is, and you can't find y is you don't know the sum.

Dr. Robert J. Rapalje