Question

A student opens a mathematics book to two facing pages. The product of the page number is 506. find the page numbers

Answer 1

how dou you know whats the first or the second page please help

Answer 2

22 and 23

Answer 3

how did you com up with that

Answer 4

sorry i mean come up with

Answer 5

let x be the number of one of the pages,then x+1 is that of the facing page:
x(x+1)=506 now just solve for x

Answer 6

Ok thanks after that then do i multiply x by each term inside the parentheses.

Answer 7

yes ,you end up with aquadratic equation which you can easily solve

Answer 8

thank you so much