SOLUTION: Find the largest of three consecutive odd integers such that the sum of the first two integers is five more than the third integer

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Question 975471: Find the largest of three consecutive odd integers such that the sum of the first two integers is five more than the third integer
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Let represent the largest of the three consecutive odd integers. Then the next smaller one must be and the smallest . The sum of the first two is:



And this is 5 more than the largest, so:



Solve for

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