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

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The sum of three consecutive integers is 267. What is the largest integer?

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caitlinnr14 · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

How can you show three consecutive integers using general terms?

caitlinnr14 · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

Im not allowed to give out answers for free anymore I got warned so I need to walk you through step by step

anonymous · Answer

If integers are consecutive, whats their difference?

caitlinnr14 · Answer

ok i really dont understand and i need to learn this so thx u

anonymous · Answer

If there are three consecutive integers, you can show them as x-1, x, x+1. This is because the numbers are different by one. Do you understand what I mean?

caitlinnr14 · Answer

oh yea!

anonymous · Answer

so by doing that, you can show this question using only x
so it will look like this
x-1+x+x+1=267

caitlinnr14 · Answer

ok so basically i need to find 3 numbers that equal 267

caitlinnr14 · Answer

?

anonymous · Answer

yeah so by using that idea of showing numbers into x-1, x, and x+1 you can set up an equation like I have shown above. By doing so, you can find the value of x

caitlinnr14 · Answer

wait what?

caitlinnr14 · Answer

@SAValkyrie

anonymous · Answer

Okay let's go back to the beginning. I said you can show the three consecutive integers by using this : x-1, x, x+1 correct?

caitlinnr14 · Answer

yes

anonymous · Answer

The question above states: Sum of three consecutive integers that equals 267. So you need to find the sum(total) of the three integers.

Since it's hard to do this by guess and check, we need to take a indirect method.

caitlinnr14 · Answer

ok

anonymous · Answer

The three consecutive integers are x-1, x, x+1. Find the sum of those three terms and they should equal to 267 

like this
(x-1)+x+(x+1)=267

caitlinnr14 · Answer

ok so like 184-90+183?

caitlinnr14 · Answer

@SAValkyrie

anonymous · Answer

umm no.. you are supposed to find three integers that are consecutive
so like this 88,89,90

anonymous · Answer

(x-1)+x+(x+1)=267 solve this equation, solve for x and you should get the answer for x which will give you the answer for this problem.

caitlinnr14 · Answer

oh so lik 60,30,177?

caitlinnr14 · Answer

@SAValkyrie

anonymous · Answer

eh no

anonymous · Answer

(x-1)+x+(x+1)=267
x+x+x-1+1=267
3x=267
x=89

caitlinnr14 · Answer

ohhhhh!

anonymous · Answer

So the three numbers would be 88,89 and 90