Problema Solution

a student opens a math book to two facing pages. the product of the page numbers is 156. find the page numbers

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the product of the page numbers is 156

x ( x + 1 ) = 156

x^2 +x -156 = 0

x^2 +13x - 12x -156 = 0

x =  12 , -13

x= 12 is answer