SOLUTION: The basketball score is a 2 digit number. The sum of the digits is 8. The difference is 2. The tens digit is less than the ones digit. What is the score?

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Question 639843: The basketball score is a 2 digit number. The sum of the digits is 8. The difference is 2. The tens digit is less than the ones digit. What is the score?
Found 2 solutions by lwsshak3, neatmath:
Answer by lwsshak3(11628) (Show Source):
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The basketball score is a 2 digit number. The sum of the digits is 8. The difference is 2. The tens digit is less than the ones digit. What is the score?
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let u=units digit
let t=tens digit
..
u-t=2
-t+u=2
t+u=8
add
2u=10
u=5
t=u-2=3
score: 35

Answer by neatmath(302) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let a be the tens digit, let b be the ones digit.

given

given

We know that we have to use because the tens digit is smaller than the ones digit.

Now we just need to solve this system of equations by substitution.

Thus, the score should be ab, or 35.

I hope this helps! :)

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