The product of two consecutive positive integers is 132. What is their sum?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. 23
- Step 1: gives , so . Step 2. The positive solution is , so the integers are 11 and 12 and their sum is 23. Answer: 23. Why not the others: 22 is twice the smaller integer, 24 is twice the larger one, and 25 is the sum of 12 and 13, whose product is 156.
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