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Question 309859: if the product of 2 consecutive numbers is 1332 what are the 2 numbers?
Answer by unlockmath(1688)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Hello,
Let x be one number and (x+1) be the next so now we can write an equation:
x(x+1)=1332 Expand this to:
x^2+x=1332 Subtract 1332 from both sides:
x^2+x-1332=0 Factor this to:
(x-36)(x+37)=0 Solve for x:
x=36
x=-37
Both these will work. So the numbers are 36,37 and -36,-37
Make sense?
RJ
www.math-unlock.com
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