SOLUTION: find two consecutive integers whose sum is equal to 89. let x be the smaller of these integers. what is the larger of these two consecutive integers? what re the two numbers. i

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Question 327149: find two consecutive integers whose sum is equal to 89. let x be the smaller of these integers. what is the larger of these two consecutive integers? what re the two numbers.
i came up with this
x+(x+1)=89
x=44
where do i get the other number
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If is one of your integers, and is the next consecutive integer, as in one more than , and you have determined that is 44, the other number has to be one more than 44. Another way to look at it is that if 44 plus some other number equals 89, then 89 minus 44 has to be equal to the 'some other number'


John