SOLUTION: Find three consecutive even numbers whose sum is 180. Show all your work and use algebra to solve this problem.

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Question 613121: Find three consecutive even numbers whose sum is 180. Show all your work and use algebra to solve this problem.

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Let be the first even number. Then the next consecutive one is (That's because would be odd if were even.) The next is



Solve for , then calculate and

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