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Question from Jarrod, a student:

the sum of two consecutive odd integers is 24. Find the two integers

Hi Jarrod.

If the sum of them is 24, what is the average? And if they are consecutive odd integers, then each is 1 away from the average right? What does this tell you?

Stephen.

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