The sum of three consecutive numbers is 48. What are the numbers?
2 Answers
Dividing
Explanation:
This is the middle number. The others are one less and one more:
In addition, there is another way to solve this.
For instance, you know that the sum of three numbers must add to be 48. Also, you know that they are consecutive.
Thus, you can represent the value of the least number with
Moreover, since they are consecutive numbers you can represent the value of the next number with
Now, for the third number you simply add 2 (
The equation would look something like this:
Substitute for the other values when
Finally, the three answers are
So the three numbers are:
Explanation:
There are tree consecutive numbers ( right next to each other on the number line) that are added together
What follows does work.
So the next one up is
So the next one down is
So the three numbers are: