Question

If the average of five consecutive whole numbers is 18, what is the smallest number?
Ms. Sue
16
How did you solve it? Thank you.
Ms. Sue
I guessed it was 16. Then I took the average of 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.

Yep, the average of the 5 consecutive numbers was the middle number.

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