Asked by Anonymous

The sum of two consecutive integers is -15. what is the product of the two integers?
Answered by Reiny
x + x+1 =-15
2x = -16
x = -8

so the two numbers are -8 and -7
their product = 56
Answered by Anonymous
how did you figure out all of that? how did you get -16? and -8?
Answered by Reiny
As you can see in my post , I solved the equation that I formed from the English sentences.

At what grade level are you studying this ?
Answered by Anonymous
I'm in 8th grade and this is a 9th grade class. I was just wondering because she gave it to us without going over it slowly...