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Question 1018292: A textbook is opened and the product of the page numbers of the two facing pages is 5700. What are the numbers of the pages
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Answer by ikleyn(52780) About Me  (Show Source):
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A textbook is opened and the product of the page numbers of the two facing pages is 5700. What are the numbers of the pages
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1) these page numbers are two consecutive integers.

2) sqrt%285700%29 = 75.5 (approximately).

3) Hence the pages are 75 and 76: 75*76 = 5700.


Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054) About Me  (Show Source):
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The page numbers are very nearly the same (they're just 1 apart).

So they will be very near to the square root of 5700, which is

75.49834435.  So they are 75 and 76.

Checking:  75(76) = 5700.  That's it.

Edwin