Question

Find three consecutive positive integers such that the product of the first and third, minus the second, is 1 more than 3 times the third.

The smallest integer is ___

Answer 1

• The smallest integer is 4

Explanation:

So here this question is of concept linear equations. As in linear equations we assumes the unknown number as an variable after that an equation would be formed which we would solve and get the answer. Here also we would be doing same.!!

Let us assume the first consecutive positive integer as m. Therefore, second and third consecutive number would be (m + 1) and (m + 2) respectively.

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