SOLUTION: Find three consecutive even intergers cush that the sum of the mallest and the largest is 36

Algebra ->  Customizable Word Problem Solvers  -> Numbers -> SOLUTION: Find three consecutive even intergers cush that the sum of the mallest and the largest is 36      Log On

Ad: Over 600 Algebra Word Problems at edhelper.com


   



Question 378579: Find three consecutive even intergers cush that the sum of the mallest and the largest is 36
Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!


What a delightfully quaint way of utterly trashing the English language. What did English ever do to you that you should treat it in such a shabby fashion?

I don't know what an interger is. "cush" that? "mallest"? Is that the "interger" that hangs out at the mall the most?

Let's proceed on the assumption that you really meant to say:
Find three consecutive even integers such that the sum of the smallest and the largest is 36.

Let represent the smallest of the three consecutive integers. Then must be the next larger, and must be the largest.

So:




Solve for to find the smallest, then count by 2s to get the other two.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
The Out Campaign: Scarlet Letter of Atheism