Problema Solution

The house numbers on the west side of a street are consecutive positive odd integers. The product of the house numbers for two next-door neighbors on the west side of the street is 575. Find the house numbers.

Answer provided by our tutors

Let the two positive consecutive integers be 'n', 'n+2'. We can write:


n(n+2)=575


solving for n, we get:

n=23


Therefore, the house numbers are 23 and 25