14,16.18
The numbers are -18, -16 and -14.
They are 14, 16 and 18.
The numbers are 46, 48 and 50.
There are no two consecutive integers which sum to make 48. The closest you can get is if you drop the integer part of the problem and state simply that they have to have a difference of 1 between them. In which case it would be 23.5 and 24.5.
The integers are 44, 46 and 48.
14,16.18
The numbers are -18, -16 and -14.
They are 14, 16 and 18.
The numbers are 46, 48 and 50.
48
There are no two consecutive integers which sum to make 48. The closest you can get is if you drop the integer part of the problem and state simply that they have to have a difference of 1 between them. In which case it would be 23.5 and 24.5.
-46
15, 16 and 17
There are no such answers. The sum of even numbers is even. The sum of odd numbers could be even, but the sum of three consecutive odd numbers is always odd. One could swap the questions to get potentially answerable questions: Sum of 3 consecutive EVEN integers = 150 48 + 50 + 52 = 150 unfortunately, we can already see that if we were to make these odd integers (add 1 to each), we would get 153, not 151. Sum of 3 consecutive ODD integers = 151 49 + 51 + 53 = 153 47 + 49 + 51 = 147 We can see that, whenever we slide our three consecutive integers up one, we raise the value of the sum up 3, and if we jump from odd to odd, or even to even, we raise each integer by 2, so we raise the sum by 6.
The numbers are -48, -46 and -44 AND -47, -46, and -45. ( all negative numbers can be either odd or even)
2 + 4 + 6 + ... + 44 + 46 + 48 = 600