document.write( "Question 1202304: The sum of the squares of two numbers is 218 and their difference multiplied by the smaller number equals 42. Find the two numbers. \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "Two of the above are incomplete because there are two solutions. \r\n" );
document.write( "Mine (the second one) is the only complete one.\r\n" );
document.write( "Ikleyn mistook the problem as requiring that the solution be integers.\r\n" );
document.write( "That was not necessary and caused the second solution to be lost.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The trick to making the algebra simpler was to use the smaller as x\r\n" );
document.write( "and the larger as x+k where k > 0\r\n" );
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