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document.write( "1- The perfect squares just before 85 are the following:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "   4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "2- Looking at your numbers, you can add 36 and 49 to get 85.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "3- The square root of 36 is 6 and the square root of 49 is 7. Therefore, two consecutive integers whose sum of their squares is 85 are 6 and 7. </SPAN>\n" );
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