SOLUTION: The product of two consecutive integers is 11 more than their sum. Find the integers. I have tried to solve this but i can't, the way the book explains it is very confusing.

Question 335725: The product of two consecutive integers is 11 more than their sum. Find the integers. I have tried to solve this but i can't, the way the book explains it is very confusing.
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the first integer be x, then the next consecutive integr is x+1
" The product of two consecutive numbers is 11 more than their sum." Simplify this equation.
Subtract 2x from both sides.
Now subtract 12 from both sides.
Factor this trinomial.
Apply the zero product rule.
or therefore...
or these are the two integers.
Check:
Substitute x = 4.

You can check x = -3 yourself.
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