Puzzle 124
There are 5 consecutive even numbers whose sum is 640. Which are these numbers?
e.g. 2,4,6,8,10 are consecutive even numbers and their sum is 30.
The average of 5 consecutive even numbers will be equal to the third number.
Because if the numbers are
x,x+2,x+4,x+6,x+8,
then their sum is 5x+2+4+6+8 = 5x+20
Their average is (5x+20)/5 = x+4 which is the third number of the sequence.
Here the sum is 640 => average is 640/5 = 128
Hence the sequence is
124,126,128,130,132
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