The sum of two numbers is 50 and the difference is 2. What are the numbers?

Answer 1

Greetings! Lets solve this shall we ?

Let the equations mentioned be set up to

x + y = 50

x - y = 2.....................Now lets solve them ! We can see them being solved by the addition/elimination method

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2x = 52...............Then dividing 2

x = 26

Then, we plug x = 26 into the first equation or the second equation. Either one is your choice. You should get the same y-value such that

(26) + y = 20...............Subtract 26 to get

y = 24

I hope this helped!