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The product of two consecutive positive integers is divisible by 2 ; Is this statement true or false? Give reasons.

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Let the consecutive positive integers be n and (n + 1).


Since, the numbers are consecutive one must be even between these. The product of these is n(n + 1) which will also be divisible by 2


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