SOLUTION: If someone opens a book to two facing pages, the product of the page number is 2352. What is the first and second page?
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Question 153064: If someone opens a book to two facing pages, the product of the page number is 2352. What is the first and second page?
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x = the first page number and x+1 the number of the facing page.
Subtract 2352 from both sides.
Factor the quadratic equation.
or
The first page is 48. The second page is 49.
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