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Old October 9th, 2008, 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by tpoma View Post
Still a bit confused on this one, I came up with an answer of

P= 78 consecutive numbers are 25,26,27 but I am not sure how to put this as an equation.
Chop Suey gave you the equation.

P = n + (n+1) + (n+2)


78 = n + (n+1) + (n+2)
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