SOLUTION: Find two numbers whose sum is 39, and whose difference is 13. What is the larger number? What is the smaller number?

Question 737022: Find two numbers whose sum is 39, and whose difference is 13.
What is the larger number?
What is the smaller number?
Answer by LyeahWilliams(3) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Your question was what two number have the sum 39 and the difference 13. well its the numbers 26 & 13. the way i found that out was subtarcting the numbers that were already present. i used the number i got and added it to other numbers until i got the sum 39. then when i got it i checked it to see if it was correct and it was.
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