document.write( "Question 309859: if the product of 2 consecutive numbers is 1332 what are the 2 numbers? \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "Let x be one number and (x+1) be the next so now we can write an equation:
\n" ); document.write( "x(x+1)=1332 Expand this to:
\n" ); document.write( "x^2+x=1332 Subtract 1332 from both sides:
\n" ); document.write( "x^2+x-1332=0 Factor this to:
\n" ); document.write( "(x-36)(x+37)=0 Solve for x:
\n" ); document.write( "x=36
\n" ); document.write( "x=-37
\n" ); document.write( "Both these will work. So the numbers are 36,37 and -36,-37
\n" ); document.write( "Make sense?
\n" ); document.write( "RJ
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