document.write( "Question 256442: the product of two consecutive positive even number is 528.find the numbers. \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "Let's represent a consecutive number with x and the next even number as x+2. Now we can set up an equation as:
\n" ); document.write( "x(x+2)=528 Rewritten as:
\n" ); document.write( "x^2 + 2x = 528 Subtract 528 from both sides will give us:
\n" ); document.write( "x^2 + 2x - 528 = 0 Now we can factor this as:
\n" ); document.write( "(x + 24)(x - 22) = 0
\n" ); document.write( "x=-24
\n" ); document.write( "x=22
\n" ); document.write( "Answer is 22 and 24. Check this out by multiplying them to see if it equals 528.
\n" ); document.write( "Make Sense?
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