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Question 253280: The product of two consecutive positive integers is always divisible by an integer greater than one. What is that number? Why is this true? Answer by Greenfinch(383) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The number is 2. two consecutive numbers are n an (n+1)
One must be odd and one even. Result therefore always has a factor 2