the sum of four consecutive odd integers is -72. write an equation to model this situation. find the value of the four integers

Question

the work that I did is

4x+6=-72

x=-19.5

the integers would be -19.5,-18.5,-17.5,-16.5

my math final is tmr and I could really use this answered immediately

Answer 1

If we have four consecutive odd numbers they go like this:

n, n+2, n+4, n+6 (we add 2 each time because we skip the even one in between)

so, the equation should be the sum of all those: 4n + 12 =-72

You can then solve this for the integers. It just looks like you forgot to add two to each n, only adding one.