Question

The product of two consecutive positive integers is 19 more than their sum.

Find the integers?

Answer 1

call the one integer x.

if they are consecutive, call the other one x-1 or x+1. There are your clues.

Answer 2

so theintegers are 18,20

Answer 3

let the integers be x and x +1

the product is x(x+1)

the sum is x + x+1


if there product is 19 more than the sum

x(x+1) = x +x+1 + 19

you need to simplify by expanding and collecting like terms

Answer 4

only use the positive solution to the equation