Please help me-Algebra 1! WILL REWARD MEDAL/FAN!!!

Fiona and Greg play a number guessing game. Greg gives Fiona this hint about his two secret numbers, "The product of the two consecutive positive integers that I am thinking of is 11 more than their sum." What are Greg's numbers?

Please help.

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Please help me-Algebra 1! WILL REWARD MEDAL/FAN!!!

Fiona and Greg play a number guessing game. Greg gives Fiona this hint about his two secret numbers, "The product of the two consecutive positive integers that I am thinking of is 11 more than their sum." What are Greg's numbers?

Please help.

dan815 · Answer

x*(x+1)=11+(x+1)+x

shrutipande9 · Answer

let the 2 nos be x and x+1
x(x+1)=11+x+x+1

dan815 · Answer

simplify and solve

lilai3 · Answer

Yes, I simplified and got the answer:|dw:1392105499738:dw|