document.write( "Question 182692: A student opens a mathematics book to 2 facing pages. The product of the page numbers is 1806. Find the page numbers. The first page number is
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lets call the 2 consecutive pages a and b......but we know that b=a+1
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\n" ); document.write( "a^2+a-1806=0
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\n" ); document.write( "there arent negative page numbers so throw out -43
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Solved by pluggable solver: SOLVE quadratic equation (work shown, graph etc)
Quadratic equation \"ax%5E2%2Bbx%2Bc=0\" (in our case \"1x%5E2%2B1x%2B-1806+=+0\") has the following solutons:
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\n" ); document.write( " \"x%5B12%5D+=+%28b%2B-sqrt%28+b%5E2-4ac+%29%29%2F2%5Ca\"
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\n" ); document.write( " For these solutions to exist, the discriminant \"b%5E2-4ac\" should not be a negative number.
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\n" ); document.write( " First, we need to compute the discriminant \"b%5E2-4ac\": \"b%5E2-4ac=%281%29%5E2-4%2A1%2A-1806=7225\".
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\n" ); document.write( " Discriminant d=7225 is greater than zero. That means that there are two solutions: \"+x%5B12%5D+=+%28-1%2B-sqrt%28+7225+%29%29%2F2%5Ca\".
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\n" ); document.write( " \"x%5B1%5D+=+%28-%281%29%2Bsqrt%28+7225+%29%29%2F2%5C1+=+42\"
\n" ); document.write( " \"x%5B2%5D+=+%28-%281%29-sqrt%28+7225+%29%29%2F2%5C1+=+-43\"
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\n" ); document.write( " Quadratic expression \"1x%5E2%2B1x%2B-1806\" can be factored:
\n" ); document.write( " \"1x%5E2%2B1x%2B-1806+=+%28x-42%29%2A%28x--43%29\"
\n" ); document.write( " Again, the answer is: 42, -43.\n" ); document.write( "Here's your graph:
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