SOLUTION: The product of two consecutive natural numbers is 1056. Find the sum of these two numbers.

Question 114630: The product of two consecutive natural numbers is 1056. Find the sum of these two numbers.
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x be the first (lower) number, then (x+1) is the next consecutive number.
The product of theses two numbers is 1056. Subtract 1056 from both sides.
Solve by factoring.
Apply the zero product principle.
If then
or
If then Since the problem says "two consecutive natural numbers", discard the negtive solution.
and These are the two numbers.
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