The product of two consecutive negative integers is 2550. What is the sum of the two integers?
+37146 x = first integer
x-1 = other integer
x (x-1) = 2550
x^2 -x -2550 = 0 quadratic formula shows x = -51 or 50
x = -50 x-1 = -51
Another way sqrt 2550 = ±50.49 so the two numbers are very close to this - 50.49 ~~ -50 then the other is -51
The prime factorization of the numbers is 2 x 3 x 5 x 5 x 17. then I tried to get two consecutive numbers and got: 2 x 5 x 5 and 3 x 17 which get 50 and 51. Then you want negative numbers so the answer is -50 and -51. Also, remember that 2 negative numbers multiplied by each other gets a positive number.
+5 The prime factorization of the numbers is 2 x 3 x 5 x 5 x 17. then I tried to get two consecutive numbers and got: 2 x 5 x 5 and 3 x 17 which get 50 and 51. Then you want negative numbers so the answer is -50 and -51. Also, remember that 2 negative numbers multiplied by each other gets a positive number. sorry i was the guest forgot to login.
