The sum of three consecutive numbers is 111. What is the smallest of the three numbers?

Question

I don't know the answer please help.

Answer 1

You want to find 'x', and you know it satisfies:

x + (x+1) + (x+2) = 111

The above can be rewritten as:

3*x + 3 = 111

So we can solve for 'x' to get:

x = 108/3 = 36