How to multiply integers - GRE Quantitative Reasoning

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The product of two consecutive positive integers is 272. What is the larger of the two integers?

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In order to multiply to 272, the units digits of the two integers will have to multiply to a number with a units digit of 2. For 17, you can see that 6 x 7 (the units digits of 16 and 17) = 42. The best strategy here is to plug in the choices using the units digit strategy.

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