document.write( "Question 896659: A set of three positive integers has a sum of 9 and a product of 24. If the smallest of the integers is 2, what is the largest?
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m,n,p the integers.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "One of them is 2.
\n" ); document.write( "The integers are m, n, and 2.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"m%2Bn%2B2=9\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"highlight_green%28m%2Bn=7%29\"\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"mn%2A2=24\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"highlight_green%28mn=12%29\"\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Highlighted in \"green%28GREEN%29\" are two equations in two unknown variables.
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\n" ); document.write( "\"m%2Bn=7\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"n=7-m\"
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\n" ); document.write( "Substitute into the product equation.
\n" ); document.write( "\"m%2An=12\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"m%2A%287-m%29=12\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"7m-m%5E2=12\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"-m%5E2%2B7m=12\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"-m%5E2%2B7m-12=0\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"m%5E2-7m%2B12=0%2C\" factorable.
\n" ); document.write( "\"%28m-3%29%28m-4%29=0\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"m=3\" OR \"m=4\"
\n" ); document.write( "Correspondingly computing or evaluating n, you find that \"n=4\" or \"n=3\".\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The two unknown integers are 3 and 4.
\n" ); document.write( "The integer, 2, was already given.
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