1. Two consecutive integers means that the values are whole numbers and they are located right after the other (eg. 2, 3).
Now, let us call the smaller value x. The consecutive value will be one greater than x, thus the larger value may be written as x + 1.
2. We know that the product of the two values is 420. Given that the smaller value is x and the larger value is x + 1, we can write this as:
x(x + 1) = 420
3. Now we can expand to get:
x^(2) + x = 420
4. Now subtract 420 from both sides to get:
x^(2) + x - 420 = 0
Therefor, the constant of the quadratic expression is -420.