SOLUTION: the product of twop consectuive odd numbers is 10 more than the square of the smaller number .find the numbers

Question 540741: the product of twop consectuive odd numbers is 10 more than the square of the smaller number .find the numbers
Found 2 solutions by mananth, josmiceli:
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let one number be x
other number will be x+2
x(x+2)=x^2+10
x^2+2x=x^2+10
-x^2
2x=10
/2
x=5
5 & 7 are the numbers
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call the consecutive odd numbers and
given:

Subtract from both sides

The numbers are 5 and 7
check:

OK
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