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

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

b

Madhur said...

B

Unknown said...

B

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).