How are you doing? Thank you for tuning in to this video presentation by Mr. Larry Whittington, or as he wants to be known, Mr. Wit. Mr. Whittington knows all about mathematics and that is why he founded Fort Bend Tutoring. Today we're going to learn about word problems, not the kind where you curse people out, but the mathematical ones that can be hard to understand. So get your ink pen and pencil ready, take notes, because you're going to learn from Mr. Wits. Hello ladies and gentlemen, this is Larry Whittington with Fort Bend Tutoring, and today's lesson is going to be about consecutive integer word problems. This is part two of our word problem series. Anytime we're dealing with consecutive integers, please understand that we're just talking about numbers that follow one another. For instance, 6, 7, and 8 are consecutive integers. So here in our first problem, it says the sum of three consecutive integers is 84. Find the integers. The first thing I'm going to do is define my three consecutive integers. So I will have my first integer as my unknown, that's going to be my variable X. The second integer will be one more than my first integer, so I can define that as X + 1. Then for my third consecutive integer, that's going to be two more than my original value, so I'm going to define that as X + 2. This will ensure that my first value, second value, and third value will definitely be consecutive integers. We were told that the sum of these three consecutive integers is 84, which means we need to add these three values together and have it equal to 84. So here's going to be our equation: X + (X + 1) + (X + 2)...
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