sandy wrote:
If x, y, and z are consecutive even integers, such that x < y < z and xyz = 960, what is the value of z?
Drill 2
Question: 4
Page: 286
I like Sandy's solution a lot. It's probably the best/fastest approach.
However, here's one more solution:
Since x, y, and z are EVEN, and since xyz = 960, I assume that one of the values is 10 (since 960 is divisible by 10). Of course, one of the values could also be 20 or 30 or..., but I'll start with 10
If one value is 10, the other two EVEN numbers must have a product of 96 AND the two numbers should be close together since we're dealing with consecutive numbers.
I know that (8)(12) = 96, and these numbers are close together
When we combine 8 and 12 with 10, we see that we do, indeed, have 3 consecutive EVEN integers.
Since x < y < z, we know that x = 8, y = 10 and z = 12
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