SOLUTION: if the sum of three consecutive integers is 69, what is the integer?

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Question 344116: if the sum of three consecutive integers is 69, what is the integer?
Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!


You set up a relationship between three integers and then you ask the identity of "the" integer. Which one? Did you simply not read what you wrote before you submitted the question?

Let represent the smallest integer. Then and are the next two consecutive integers.



Solve for to get the smallest integer.


John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it