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+increasing = 0
+
+with open("../input", "r") as file:
+
+	# parse the text file into an array of integers
+	data = [int(x) for x in file.read().split("\n")]
+
+	# iterate through the data until we don't have enough data to form a group
+	# of 3 values
+	for i in range(0, len(data) - 3):
+
+		# Collect the two values for the ranges for compare
+		group_1 = sum(data[i : i+3])
+		group_2 = sum(data[i+1 : i+4])
+
+		# check the delta
+		if group_1 - group_2 < 0:
+			increasing += 1
+
+print(f"Number of groups increasing: {increasing}")
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