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The sum of three consecutive odd numbers is 87. What is the smallest of these numbers?

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27

Explanation:

Let the first (the smallest) of these consecutive odd numbers be n.

Then the other two are n+2 and n+4. Adding up these 3 numbers results in 87 = 3n + 6, so that 3n = 81 and n = 27.

The three consecutive odd integers are 27, 29 and 31. The smallest is 27.


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