Question

Find Three Consecutive odd integers Whose sum is 117.

Answer 1

(x-2) + x + (x+2) = 117

3x=117

x= 39

the numbers are ?

Answer 2

37,39,41 Thanks a lot

Answer 3

But why( x-2) +x+(x+2)

Answer 4

Yes, that is right, and yw !

Answer 5

I am making the middle term "x", and the term before to be x-2, and the term after to be x+2.

Answer 6

oh that helps a lot thanks

Answer 7

nice to hear that :)

Answer 8

Some people make x, to be the first term... but you see what I did? I made x to be the middle term so that x would be the average of the terms.

Answer 9

Yeah it helps doing that because i was trying the every number :)

Answer 10

yeah.. with guessing you wouldn't get so far ahead of the game... from now and on, you will surely be able to easily snap these problems.

Answer 11

Have fun