Find two numbers that add up to 50 and whose product is 600. What are the numbers?
Category: Math · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Use the equations for sum and product to solve.
Answer
20 and 30
Explanation
Let the numbers be x and y. Then x + y = 50 and xy = 600. Solving these gives x = 20 and y = 30.
This is a expert math riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is 20 and 30.
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