Three consecutive natural numbers have a sum of 36. What is the greatest number?

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Eduardwww [97]4 years ago

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It's 12 because if you divide 36 by 3 (consecutive) it equals 12

aleksandr82 [10.1K]4 years ago

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If you have three of them, they go in order: 2, 3, 4 and so on.

If the lowest is X then the next two are x + 1 and x + 2. 

Though the question asks you to look for the highest, so I'll call that x, so the other two become "x - 1" and x - 2

So if we add them up to get 36, we get: 

x + (x - 1) + (x - 2) = 36 

Solving for x: 

3x - 3 = 36 
3x = 39 
x = 13

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