SOLUTION: The sum of two numbers is seven. The sum of the squares of the two numbers is twenty-five. Find the two numbers.

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Question 1128858: The sum of two numbers is seven. The sum of the squares of the two numbers is twenty-five. Find the two numbers.
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4^2 + 3^2 = 5^2.

Every student must memorize,  know and remember this identity.

It is the first  (the smallest)  Pythagorean triple.

Famous and well known  (just more than 2000 years).