Problema Solution
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A student opens a mathematics book to two facing pages. The product of the page numbers is 156. Find the page numbers.
1. What is the first page?
2. What is the second page?
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The two page is x and x+1
So the equation is
x(x+1)= 156
So
x =12
So the first page is 12 and second is 13