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01/08/2018 at 02:20

The average of three numbers is 40. All three are whole positive numbers and are different from each other. If the lowest is 19, what could be the highest possible number of the remaining two numbers?

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Tôn Thất Khắc Trịnh 01/08/2018 at 09:38

The sum of the three numbers is 120.
The sum of the two remaining numbers is 101.
The lowest possible value for the second number is 20.
So the highest number would be 81.
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