document.write( "Question 322556: The product of two consecutive odd integers is 79 more than their sum. What is the smaller integer of the two integers?
\n" ); document.write( "I got x and x+1
\n" ); document.write( "then according to the question I got x*x+1=x+x+1+79
\n" ); document.write( "then I combined the common factors and got x^2+x=2x+80
\n" ); document.write( "after that I moved everything to one side and got x^2-x-80=0 (x+__)(x-__)
\n" ); document.write( "I got stuck here because I couldnt figure out what 2 number is multiplied together to get 80 but still get 1 for the middle. \n" ); document.write( "

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the numbers are both odd , so they are ___ x and x+2 (not 1) \n" ); document.write( "

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