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  • 23-05-2018
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The product of two consecutive odd integers is 783. how do you find the integers?

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  • 25-05-2018
We can represent the integers with x and x + 2. The reason why the second number is x+2 is that odd numbers are 2 integers away from each other.

x(x+2) = 783
x^2 + 2x - 783 = 0
(x - 27)(x + 29)=0

The consecutive odd integers could either be 27 and 29, or -29 and -27
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