SOLUTION: The product of two consecutive positive integers is always divisible by an integer greater than one. What is that number? Why is this true?

Question 253281: The product of two consecutive positive integers is always divisible by an integer greater than one. What is that number? Why is this true?
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The product of two consecutive positive integers is always divisible by an integer greater than one. What is that number? Why is this true?
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The product of 2 consecutive integers is divisible by both the integers???
x*y is divisible by x and by y.
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If you mean by the SAME integer, tho you didn't say that, then it's 2, since one of the integers must be even.

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