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the product of two consecutive natural numbers is 1.5 times the square of the lesser number. find the two numbers.

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Answer:

2 and 3

Explanation:

You want two consecutive natural numbers whose product is 1.5 times the square of the smaller.

Setup

Let x represent the smaller number. Then the given relation is ...

x(x +1) = 1.5x²

Solution

Dividing by x gives ...

x +1 = 1.5x

1 = 0.5x . . . . . . subtract x

2 = x

The two numbers are 2 and 3.

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Additional comment

Their product is 2·3 = 6. The square of the smaller is 2² = 4. When that is multiplied by 1.5, the result is 6, as required.

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