SOLUTION: Please help me out. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 14. The tens digit is the square of a number which is 2 less than the units digit. Find the two-digit number.

Question 992176: Please help me out.
The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 14. The tens digit is the square of a number which is 2 less than the units digit. Find the two-digit number.
Answer by ikleyn(52798) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Answer. 95.

Solution

The tens digit can be 9, 4, 1 or 0 only, because it is the square and is "the digit".

If it is 9, then the units digit is 5 = 3+2.

Then the number is 95.

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