SOLUTION: The product of two consecutive positive integers is always divisible by an integer greater than one. What is that number? Why is this true?

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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) About Me  (Show Source):
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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