<PRE><B>Question 87398</B>
2 approaches:

1. trial and error seeing as how the number is not so large:

23+1
21+3
19+5
17+7
15+9
13+11 ... there you go.


2. using algebra.


let x be the smaller of the 2 numbers. The larger number is 2 more than this (as you can see from the answers...but consecutive odd numbers will always have a difference of 2) so larger number is x+2

so x+x+2=24
2x+2=24
2x=22
x=11


so numbers are 11 and 13.


cheers
Jon
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