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9 added to the product of two consecutive multiples of 6 gives 729. What are the numbers?

Let the numbers be 6x and (6x + 6)


Product of the two numbers is


Now adding 9 to the product gives 729


Therefore we can write it as










therefore the number is 24 and 30


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