SOLUTION: If a^2-2ab+b=36 and a^2-3ab+b^2=22, find ab. The choices the book gave me are 6, 8, 12, and 14. This is from section adding and subtracting polynomials.

SOLUTION: If a^2-2ab+b=36 and a^2-3ab+b^2=22, find ab. The choices the book gave me are 6, 8, 12, and 14. This is from section adding and subtracting polynomials.

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Question 434439: If a^2-2ab+b=36 and
a^2-3ab+b^2=22, find ab.
The choices the book gave me are 6, 8, 12, and 14.
This is from section adding and subtracting polynomials.
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I think you meant , in which case, by subtracting the 2nd equation from the first, you get ab = 14.
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