SOLUTION: how to find 2 consecutive intergers whose product is 30? and how to show the problem worked out step by step.

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Question 790688: how to find 2 consecutive intergers whose product is 30?
and how to show the problem worked out step by step.

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You cannot find two consecutive intergers. That is because there is no such thing as an interger, at least not in mathematics. You can find two consecutive integers, so let's do that, shall we? Let represent the first integer. The next integer is then . Product means the result of a multiplication, so:



Distribute the , put the quadratic into standard form, then solve the factorable quadratic equation. Note: This word problem has two solutions.

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