How do you find two consecutive odd integers whose sum is 196?
2 Answers
Explanation:
There is at least two ways of doing this: This is my approach
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Let the first odd number be
Then the second odd number is
Thus our given condition is such that:
Subtract 4 from both sides
Divide both sides by 4
But the first number is
So the second number is
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Check:
Another way
Explanation:
Let the first number be
Let the second number be
Then
Subtract 2 from both sides
Divide both sides by 2
The first number is 97 so the second is 97+2=99