SOLUTION: Name the Numbers. I am thinking if two odd numbers. Their sum is 10. Their difference is 2 less than their sum. What are the numbers? Can you please help with this problem

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Question 350339: Name the Numbers.
I am thinking if two odd numbers. Their sum is 10. Their difference is 2 less than their sum. What are the numbers?
Can you please help with this problem....its for my daughters homework and I cannot figure it out.
Thank You.
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Let be one of the numbers. Let be the other number.

The sum is 10



The difference is 2 less than the sum, so the difference must be 8:



Add the two equations:





Solve for , then substitute the value of into either of the equations to solve for


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