Question

You open a book to two facing pages. The product of the two pages is 600. Find the page numbers.

Answer 1

To find this, use an equation with x to represent the smaller page number as your variable. set up the equation x(x+1) = 600. distribute the x to get x^2 + x = 600. subtract 600 from both sides so you have x^2 + x - 600 = 0. factor to get (x+24)*(x+25) = 0. so the two pages are 24 and 25