If the product of two consecutive numbers is 156, what are the numbers?
Category: Math · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Think of a quadratic equation to solve this.
Answer
12 and 13
Explanation
The equation x(x+1) = 156 gives x = 12, thus the numbers are 12 and 13.
This is a expert math riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is 12 and 13.
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