Question

The sum of the squares of 3 consecutive positive integers is 116. What are the numbers?

Answer 1

5 6 7 or -7, -6, -5....................

Answer 2

let the numbers be 2n-2,2n,2n + 2 then sum of squares will be 12 n ^2 + 8 = 116 which implies n = 3.numbers are 4,6,8