The product of two consecutive positive integers is 12 more than three times the larger integer. Find the integers.

Answer 1

Since you don't know the integers, you can call the first one x. So the next consecutive integer is x + 1. Think of 2 and 3. If 2 = x, then the next integer, 3, is x + 1.

Product means multiply. So x(x + 1) = 12 + 3(x + 1). Now you can solve from here! :)