Question

The product of two consecutive integers is 12 more than the square of the smaller one. Find the integers.

Answer 1

Any thoughts?

Answer 2

How did you get that?

Answer 3

x = one integer
x+1 = second integer

Can you work from there?

Answer 4

\[\large n \times (n + 1) = n^2 + 12\]

And can you simplify from that?

Answer 5

Can you finish it off, with the information we gave you @courtneylvskris ?