What are the questions on 7 and 8?
Let
be the smaller integer. The larger integer is then
, and we have






We omit
, since
is negative.
Then for
we find
, but this is not odd.
There are no consecutive odd integers that satisfy the given condition!
-12 + 3x + 2 = 5x - 10 - 8x
-10 + 3x = -3x -10
-10 + 6x = -10
6x = 0
x = 0