document.write( "Question 252543: I'm really bad at word problems. This one i am lost and i don't get.\r
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Algebra.Com's Answer #184514 by Edwin McCravy(20056) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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I'm really bad at word problems. This one i am lost and i don't get.
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document.write( "That product is  times , which is \r\n" );
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document.write( "That means that that product is equal to the largest number, ,\r\n" );
document.write( "squared or , with  subtracted from it.  That is, \r\n" );
document.write( "that product is equal to \r\n" );
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document.write( "So it's nothing but the equation:\r\n" );
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document.write( "See? It just takes reading carefully and thinking about what\r\n" );
document.write( "it really says about those unknown even integers. Can you now solve \r\n" );
document.write( "that equation?  If not post again asking how.  The answer is\r\n" );
document.write( ", so the three consectutive even integers are ,,\r\n" );
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document.write( "And you can easily check it:\r\n" );
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document.write( "the product of the smaller two numbers is 8x10 or 80,\r\n" );
document.write( "and 80 really is 64 less than 144, which the largest,\r\n" );
document.write( "12, squared.\r\n" );
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