SOLUTION: Margaret and Zane purchased consecutively numbered raffle tickets at a charity auction. The product of the ticket numbers was 552. Find the ticket numbers.

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Question 1055861: Margaret and Zane purchased consecutively numbered raffle tickets at a charity auction. The product of the ticket numbers was 552. Find the ticket numbers.
Answer by ikleyn(52780) About Me  (Show Source):
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23 and 24.

I solved it by finding the divisors/factors of the number 552.

You may prefer to solve a quadratic equation

n*(n+1) = 552.