Saturday, April 28, 2007

ALGEBRA QUESTION OF THE DAY

The sum of three consecutive positive integers must be divisible by which of the following?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

b

April 28, 2007 at 10:35 AM
Madhur said...

B

April 28, 2007 at 12:33 PM
Unknown said...

B

April 28, 2007 at 10:55 PM
Admin said...

Let the three consecutive positive integers be n, n + 1, and n + 2. The sum of these three positive
integers is
n + (n + 1) + (n + 2) =
3n + 3 =
3(n + 1)
Since we have written the sum as a multiple of 3, it is divisible by 3. The answer is (B).

May 3, 2007 at 12:19 PM

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