You can use the formula for the sum of an arithmetic series to calculate that quickly. (Of course, you can also type the numbers into Excel, and get the sum - but that doesn't scale well - e.g., it won't work well if you are then asked, for instance, to get the sum of the first million even numbers.)
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The numbers are 38, 40 and 42.
The sum of the first 40 whole numbers is 780.
The sum of the first 20 even numbers... is 110
2+4+6+8+10........+40=420
The numbers are 25 and 15