SOLUTION: The product of two consecutive positive odd integers is 255. What are the integers?

SOLUTION: The product of two consecutive positive odd integers is 255. What are the integers?

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Question 218379: The product of two consecutive positive odd integers is 255. What are the integers?
Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let one number be x. then the next larger odd integer is x+2

So the numbers can be -17 or 15. The problem said "positive odd", so x = 15. That makes x+2 = 17
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