Problema Solution
Roger Maris and Babe Ruth are among the 10baseball players with the most home runs in a major league baseball season the number of homerunsby these players for the seasons shown are consecutive odd intergers whose sum is 120 determine the number of homers hit by maris and ruth
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odd integers:
2x + 1
2x + 3
2x + 1 + 2x + 3 = 120
4x + 4 = 120
4x = 116
x = 29
so the integers are
2x + 1 = 2(29) + 1 = 58 + 1 = 59
and 2x + 3 = 2(29) + 3 = 58 + 3 = 61
59 and 61 are the number of homeruns