just my two cents. I think there's no easy algorithim for this type of question. The simplest way is to plug in the answer choices from end to begining. (E to A. Answers are more likely at the end of choices.) In this case, We can exclude answer for 118 since there're case that one of the number won't be even. Then just go one by one till find the one that could be the sum for 3 even numbers.