SOLUTION: find three consecutive even integers such that 4 times the first decreased by the second is 12 more than the third?

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Question 456755: find three consecutive even integers such that 4 times the first decreased by the second is 12 more than the third?
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Just write an equation for what it says,
:
"find three consecutive even integers"
x, (x+2), (x+4)
:
"is such that 4 times the first decreased by the second is 12 more than the third?"
4x - (x+2) = (x+4) + 12
4x - x - 2 = x + 4 + 12
3x - 2 = x + 16
3x - x = 16 + 2
2x = 18
x + 18%2F2
x = 9 is the 1st integer, but that's not even see if the solution checks out
:
4(9) - 11 = 13 + 12
36 - 11 = 25; seems to check out, perhaps a flaw in the way the problems was written.