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Question 191587: a student opens a book to two facing pages. The product of the page number is 506. what are the page numbers.
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a student opens a book to two facing pages. The product of the page number is 506. what are the page numbers.
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The page numbers are consecutive whole numbers:
x and x+1
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Equation:
x * (x+1) = 506
x^2 + x - 506 = 0
(x+23)(x-22) = 0
x = 22
x+1 = 23
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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