SOLUTION: find 2 consecutive odd integers such that 4 times the larger is 29 more than 3 times the smaller

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Question 265582: find 2 consecutive odd integers such that 4 times the larger is 29 more than 3 times the smaller
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find 2 consecutive odd integers such that 4 times the larger is 29 more than 3 times the smaller
Let x be the smaller and x + 2 be the larger of the two consecutive odd integers:
Then we have:
4*(x+2) = 3x + 28
Solve the above for x and then calculate x+2.