SOLUTION: Two positive numbers have a difference of 4 and a product of 96. What are the numbers?

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Question 398675: Two positive numbers have a difference of 4 and a product of 96. What are the numbers?

Answer by richard1234(7193)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you know the factorization of 96, and that 96 = 8*12, then you can determine that 8 and 12 are the numbers without using the quadratic formula.
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