00:01
So with this problem, we're dealing with three consecutive odd editors.
00:03
So make sure you always check to see if they are odd or even or not, because that's going to affect these numbers here.
00:09
You're pretty much going to always start with the same x situation here.
00:17
But then if it's odd or even, it doesn't matter.
00:19
You're going to do an x plus 2 as your second number, x plus 4 is your third, x plus 6 as fourth and so on as much as you need to.
00:26
Now it does talk about summing them at the beginning of the problem, so that means we're going to have addition of these on the left side.
00:34
So x plus x plus 2 plus x plus 4, but it doesn't say just equals some number.
00:42
It says it equals a little bit more than that.
00:44
It says it's 29 more than twice the largest.
00:47
So this x plus 4 is our largest.
00:50
So twice our largest means two times parentheses x plus 4, and then it's 29 more.
00:56
That's adding 29.
00:58
So this does look a little complicated, but we know how to clean this up a little bit.
01:02
We're just going to combine like terms on the left side.
01:05
We're going to get 3x plus 6 when combined like terms, x plus x, 2 plus 4...