The difference of two numbers is 20 and their product is 125, what is the answer?

find prime factors to get the inbetween numbers for product, and choose the one that has a difference of 20, and it should be 5 and 25, both requirements are met.

Solution 1: The numbers are 25 and 5

Solution 2: The numbers are -5 and -25

Step-by-step explanation:

We have 2 unknown numbers, then we can define them as:

x: Unknown number 1  

y: Unknown number 2

The problem states that "the difference of two numbers is 20". We can translate this to x - y = 20

We also know that "their product is 125". We can translate this to x . y = 125

Putting both equations together, we get the following system of equations

Now, to solve this system of equations we can use the Substitution Method.

We can solve 1st equation for x, by adding y to both sides

x - y + y = 20 + y

x = 20 + y

We can substitute x by 20 + y on the 2nd equation

(20 + y) . y = 125

Applying distributive property on the left side

20y + y² = 125

Substracting 125 to both sides and rearranging the terms, we get

20y + y² - 125 = 125 -125

y² + 20y - 125 = 0

We can apply the quadratic equation attached to solve this (with a = 1, b = 20, c = -125).

( -20 ± √(20² - 4 . 1 . -125) ) / ( 2. 1 ) =

( -20 ± √(400 + 500) ) / ( 2) =

( -20 ± √900 ) / ( 2) =

( -20 ± 30 ) / ( 2) =

We get 2 results:

For each of these values of y, we can find the corresponding value of x:

divide by 5

step-by-step explanation:

60/5 = 12

step-by-step explanation: