Question

7. Find two consecutive even integers such that twice the smaller diminished by twenty is equal to thelarger.

Answer 1

Given two consecutive even integer numbers x and x + 2, we know that twice the smaller number diminished by twenty is equal to the larger:

`2x-20=x+2`

Solving for x:

`\begin{gathered} 2x-x=20+2 \\ \\ \Rightarrow x=22 \end{gathered}`

And the numbers are:

`22\text{ and }24`