SOLUTION: one number is 5 greater than another number.if the sum of their squares is 5 times the square of the smaller number,what are the numbers?

SOLUTION: one number is 5 greater than another number.if the sum of their squares is 5 times the square of the smaller number,what are the numbers?

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Question 161995: one number is 5 greater than another number.if the sum of their squares is 5 times the square of the smaller number,what are the numbers?
Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let n be the smaller number.
Then the larger number is
You are given

So either or
so n is either or
Check value for n works. 5 does. does -5/3?
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