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Question 1109051: The product of three numbers is 24. Two of the numbers are even consecutive numbers. If the third number is 3, define the unknown numbers and derive a quadratic equation for the problem
Answer by rothauserc(4718)   (Show Source):
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represent the consecutive even numbers as x and x+2, then
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3(x)(x+2) = 24
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3x^2 +6x = 24
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x^2 +2x = 8
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x^2 +2x -8 = 0
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Note that there are two possible solutions depending on the meaning of "numbers" in the problem
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2,4,3 or -4,-2,3
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