Word Problems

Hockey33usa

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I am having a hard time setting this problem up..

Find 3 consecutive positive even integers such that 4 times the first decreased by the 2nd is 12 more than twice the third.

THis is what I have so far..

4n - (n+2) = 12 + 2(n+4)


n = 18? Is that correct
 
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