Belle B.
asked 09/21/15If the greatest of three consecutive integers is 56 what is the sum?
i need to find the sum of all thfee integers and the greatest is 56 they are consecutive numbers
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Nathan B. answered 09/21/15
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If you mean the greatest number is 56, then that means your numbers are 54, 55, and 56.
If you subtract one from the 56 and add it to 54, we have three 55s, and we can quickly multiply that together as:
55 * 3 = 165
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Nathan B.
09/21/15