Question

The additional cost per month of a sunroof, spoiler and stereo is represented by three consecutive even integers, respectfully. If the sum of the three is 48, find the cost of each item.

Answer 1

16

Explanation:

First of all, I think it was "respectively", not "respecfully", =))). A noticeable point.

From the problem, three item's costs are represented by three consecutive even integer.

Thus, we can call cost of spoiler is x, sunroof is x-2, stereo is x + 2. It is conditioned that x is an even number.

Since the sum of the three is 48, we have

(x-2) + x + (x+2) = 48

x+x+x -2 +2 = 48

3x =48

x=16

So the spoiler is 16; thus, the sunroof is 14 and the stereo is 18