SOLUTION: the difference of two numbers is 50, where one number is three times the other and whose product is a minimum. What are the two numbers? I know the answer, but how would i test o

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Question 1087197: the difference of two numbers is 50, where one number is three times the other and whose product is a minimum. What are the two numbers?
I know the answer, but how would i test out for the min?

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the difference of two numbers is 50, where one number is three times the other and whose product is a minimum.
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Just taking this part: difference of two numbers is 50, where one number is three times the other...


x, smaller number
y, larger number
system%28y-x=50%2Cy=3x%29, two equations, two unknown variables

3x-x=50
2x=50
x=25
y=75
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The numbers should be 25 and 75.






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Product is minimum?
3x%2Ax=p
3x%5E2=p
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