Homework Help: math

Posted by Mandy on Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 11:34pm.

The product of two consecutive positive integers is 11 more than their sum. What the integers? Please help.

math - tchrwill, Friday, December 9, 2011 at 9:47am
x(x + 1) = x + (x + 1) + 11

Your move.
math - drwls, Friday, December 9, 2011 at 9:59am
x^2 + x = 2x + 12
x^2 -x -12 = 0
(x-4)(x+3) = 0

The only positive solution for x is
x = 4. That is the smaller of the two numbers.

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