What two numbers are in the golden ratio if their sum is 100?
Category: Math · Difficulty: expert
Hint: The golden ratio is approximately 1.618.
Answer
61.8 and 38.2
Explanation
Let x and y be the two numbers, x/y = 1.618 and x + y = 100 leads to the solution.
This is a expert math riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is 61.8 and 38.2.
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