Three consecutive integers add up to a sum of exactly 102. What is the value of the largest of these three numbers?
35
Let the consecutive integers be x - 1, x, and x + 1. Their sum is 3x = 102, which gives x = 34. The largest integer is x + 1 = 35.
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