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Question 698609
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The product of two consecutive integers is less than the square of the smaller integer. Find the larger of the two integers.
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Hello,
Let's have x be one integer and x+2 be the next one.
x(x+2)
Expand to:
x^2+2x
subtract x^2 to get:
2x<0
x<0
Make sense?
RJ
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