SOLUTION: Find two consecutive odd integers that have a sum of 24.

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Question 87398: Find two consecutive odd integers that have a sum of 24.
Answer by longjonsilver(2297) About Me  (Show Source):
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2 approaches:
1. trial and error seeing as how the number is not so large:
23+1
21+3
19+5
17+7
15+9
13+11 ... there you go.

2. using algebra.

let x be the smaller of the 2 numbers. The larger number is 2 more than this (as you can see from the answers...but consecutive odd numbers will always have a difference of 2) so larger number is x+2
so x+x+2=24
2x+2=24
2x=22
x=11

so numbers are 11 and 13.

cheers
Jon