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The product of two consecutive positive odd integers is 255. find the smaller integer.

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x(x+2)=255
x²+2x-255=0
(x-15)(x+17)=0
x=15 or x=-17
take the positive number only, so the two consecutive positive odd integers are 15 and 17.

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