SOLUTION: Find three consecutive even integers such that three times the smaller is four more than twice the largest??? What does that mean???

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Question 788447: Find three consecutive even integers such that three times the smaller is four more than twice the largest??? What does that mean???
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Let represent the first of the three consecutive even integers. Then must be the next one, and has to be the one after that.

Three times the smallest is and four more than twice the largest is . "Is" means equals, so:



Solve for . Then calculate and

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