Question

What are 4 consecutive odd integers with the sum of 184?

Answer 1

43+45+47+49
Just guessed it would be near 45 because 180/4 is 45

Answer 2

consecutive means in order
ex. 1 2 3 4 5

consecutive odd integers
ex. 1 3 5 7

if we consider the first odd number as the variable "x"
then the next consecutive odd integer would be "x+2"
and the next consecutive odd integer would be "x+4"
and so on and so forth

Answer 3

@manumben that is actually a brilliant solution

Answer 4

Ahh ok, this makes a lot more sense now. Thank you so much!

Answer 5

in terms of the variable method,
you would get
x+x+2+x+4+x+6 = 184

at this point you add up like terms and just solve for x
then figure out the rest of the numbers

Answer 6

well would have been better if i used 184/4 which gives you 46 and that is the average number for all 4 values, knowing they are consecutive odd numbers you know 2 are the first 2 odd lower and the others are the first 2 odd numbers higher