SOLUTION: The sum of two numbers is seven. The sum of the squares of the two numbers is twenty-five. Find the two numbers.
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Question 1128858: The sum of two numbers is seven. The sum of the squares of the two numbers is twenty-five. Find the two numbers.
Answer by ikleyn(52786) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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4^2 + 3^2 = 5^2.
Every student must memorize, know and remember this identity.
It is the first (the smallest) Pythagorean triple.
Famous and well known (just more than 2000 years).
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