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Question Number 5531 by Rasheed Soomro last updated on 18/May/16

Once I opened an algebra - book . Instead

of individual page numbers there was

written : “ s u m o f p a g e n u m b e r s i n f r o n t

o f y o u i s x^{″} . Determine the page numbers

in terms of x .

Commented by prakash jain last updated on 18/May/16

n + (n + 1) = x

n = \frac{x - 1}{2}

p a g e n u m b e r s a r e n a n d n + 1

Commented by Rasheed Soomro last updated on 19/May/16

Even better if final answer

is written as

Required page numbers : \frac{x - 1}{2}, \frac{x + 1}{2}