SOLUTION: What is the counter example of "The product of a number (n-1) and number (n+1) is always equal to n^2-1?"

SOLUTION: What is the counter example of "The product of a number (n-1) and number (n+1) is always equal to n^2-1?"

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Question 207728: What is the counter example of "The product of a number (n-1) and number (n+1) is always equal to n^2-1?"
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you FOIL out , you will get:

So is true for ALL values of 'n'

This means that "The product of a number (n-1) and number (n+1) is always equal to n^2-1" is ALWAYS true. So once again, we cannot find any counter examples because there are none in this case.

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