document.write( "Question 1183595: The sum of the two whole numbers is 45 and their difference is less than 10. The number of all possible pairs is??? \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The thing is, given the more restrictive definition of Whole Numbers, i.e., the non-negative integers, neither of the numbers can be negative, but there is absolutely nothing about the problem that either says or implies that the difference must be non-negative. Hence, using the more restrictive definition, the first number could well be zero and the second 45, making a difference of -45 which is most certainly less than 10. Therefore the range of the first number is 0 to 27 and the range of the second is 18 to 45.\r
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