Harvey plans to use 5 ft of shelving for four shelves whose lengths are to be a series of consecutive even numbers. How many inches long should each shelf be?

Question

If x represents the length of the shortest shelf, which expression would represent the length of the longest shelf?

x + 3

x + 4

x + 6

Answer 1

x, first even number

x + 2, second even number

x + 4, third even number