Question

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

Answer 1

Use this equation: (I) + (I + 1) + (I + 2) = 267

Answer 2

(I + 2) = largest integer

Answer 3

90 would be the largest integer :)

Answer 4

how do you know that? what did you do?

Answer 5

Yep, what @VIbarguen1 said

Answer 6

i played with the numbers a bit to be honest. :)

Answer 7

what would @StudyGurl14 do to get 90?

Answer 8

i mean i used the equation she gave you cause thats the one you are supposed to use, and started at around 70 then 80 and went up from there until I got 267

Answer 9

the last number i added was the greatest integer

Answer 10

If you use the equation I put above, i + i + i + 1 + 2 = 267 --> 3i + 3 = 267
--> 3i = 264 --> i = 88.
Biggest integer --> (i + 2) --> (88 + 2) = 90

Answer 11

i feel so stupid because i dont know how to figure this answer out at all..

Answer 12

you can do that too. it a bit more complicated though :(

Answer 13

whats the easiest way? like i dont understand this.

Answer 14

But the equation I put will work out for any question like this. i represents the integer. Since it is consectutive, one after another, then the next number would be i + 1, and so forth. Since you know there are three, and they add up to 267, you can easily use the equation to solve the question

Answer 15

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Answer 16

For example: What four consecutive integers add up to 14?
i + (i + 1) + (i + 2) + (i + 3) = 14
--> i + i + i + i + 1 + 2 + 3 = 14
--> 4i + 6 + 14
--> 4i + 8
--> i = 2
So the first integer is 2, the second is (i + 1), or 3, and so forth