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prove that two consecutive positive integers are always coprime​

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Answered by Anonymous
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Let two consecutive numbers are n and n+1. Assume they are not co-primes. So x divides n as well as n+1. ... So by contradiction n & n+1 are co-prime.

Answered by Anonymous
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Let two consecutive numbers are n and n+1.

Assume they are not co-primes.

Then gcd(n,n+1)=x, because it can not equal to 1, x is natural and x>1

So x divides n as well as n+1.

Then x also divides n+1−n, by general understanding.

Hence x divides 1 or x=1.

But we have assumed x>1.

So by contradiction n & n+1 are co-prime.

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