Asked by Tina
The product of three consecutive odd numbers is 6,783.
What are the numbers?
What are the numbers?
Answers
Answered by
drwls
Let x be the first number. Solve this equation:
x(x+2)(x+4) = 6783
Instead of trying to solve a messay cubic equation, try a few odd numbers for "x" that are a bit less that the cube root of 6783 (which is 18.929). The next smaller odd number is 17.
Give it a try.
x(x+2)(x+4) = 6783
Instead of trying to solve a messay cubic equation, try a few odd numbers for "x" that are a bit less that the cube root of 6783 (which is 18.929). The next smaller odd number is 17.
Give it a try.
Answered by
Tina
17 19 21
Answered by
david
Please help me, my math sucks, I'm lazy and nothing makes sense.