Consecutive or alternate natural numbers meeting a sum condition: form a quadratic

This type of question, asked 2 times: CDS 1 2019, CDS 1 2021. All 2 questions below, oldest first.

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Question 1
CDS 1 2019
88 $The sum of the squares of four consecutive natural numbers is 294. What is the sum of the numbers ?$
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Question 2
CDS 1 2021
43 $\frac{7}{24}$
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