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The sum of two consecutive odd numbers is 156. What are the numbers?

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Answer:

the numbers are 77 and 79

Explanation:

so the 2 numbers are

x and x+2

so

x+x+2=156

subtract 2 from both sdies

2x=154

divide by 2

x=77

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