Question

Three consecutive integers have a sum of
84. Find the integers.

Answer 1

@Will.H

Answer 2

x + (x+1) + (x+2) = 84

Answer 3

^Solve

Answer 4

84 is one of them?

Answer 5

No.
If 84 was one of the numbers, then 0 and 0 would have to be the other two numbers.

0 + 0 + 84 will sum up to 84.
But 0, 0, 84 are not `consecutive`.

Answer 6

Divide 84 into three pieces.
That will give you your middle number.

Answer 7

Example:
Three consecutive numbers add up to 24, find the numbers.
Solution:
Consecutive numbers means that they are whole numbers that follow each other, such as 1,2,3, or 15,16,17.
We know that the middle number is one-third of the sum, because the middle number is also the average (mean) of the three numbers.
So the middle number when the sum is 24 is 24/3=8. So the numbers are one greater and one smaller than the middle number, or 7,8,9.