SOLUTION: Could you please help me solve this word problem and the formula used for solve it? Two positive numbers are consecutive odd integers. The square of the smaller is 4 more than

Question 170485: Could you please help me solve this word problem and the formula used for solve it?
Two positive numbers are consecutive odd integers. The square of the smaller is 4 more than 3 times the larger. Find the smaller integar. The multiple choice answers are: a) 3 b) 5 c) 6 d) 7 e) 9
thank you for your help, Phillip

Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
we are looking for 2 consecutive odd integers that are also positive. Lets call them a and a+2.
distribute and combine
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factor
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a=5 and -2 but we can throw out the negative so a=5
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integers are and

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