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The product of two consecutive positive even integers is 288.

Part A: Which quadratic equation represents the product, where n represents the smaller integer?

Part B: What is the factored form of the equation that represents the product?

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n(n+1) = 288

distribute and set equal to 0:


n^2+n-288=0


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