SOLUTION: can you find any numbers a and b such that a+b squared = a squared + b squared

Question 373105: can you find any numbers a and b such that a+b squared = a squared + b squared
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20055) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

      (a + b)� = a� + b�

(a + b)(a + b) = a� + b�
 
 a� + 2ab + b� = a� + b�

           2ab = 0

            ab = 0

Either a = 0 or b = 0

So the answer is:  Yes, as long as one of them is zero
or both of them are zero.

Edwin

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