Question

The sum of three consecutive integers is 267. What is the largest integer?

Answer 1

(a)+(a+1)+(a+2)=267. Can you take it from here?

Answer 2

Noooooo. Could you help me a little more?

Answer 3

well if you add them you will get 3a+3 = 267 or 3a = 264. so a = 264/3. and the largest integer would be a + 2.

Answer 4

So the final answer is a+2?

Answer 5

do you know algebra?

Answer 6

The largest integer would be 90

Answer 7

Not at all. Im horrible at it.

Answer 8

How did you get that? @Jesusc

Answer 9

well you need to plug in the value for a. as a just represents a number. So the final answer would be 264/3 + 2

Answer 10

and that is 90 like jesusc said.

Answer 11

So the answer is 90?

Answer 12

yup

Answer 13

Thank you guys.

Answer 14

JBrandonS explained it very nicely - it's an algebraic question