Question

The sum of two numbers is 45 and the difference is 13. What are the numbers?Larger number:Smaller number:

Answer 1

With the information given, we know that

$\begin{gathered} x+y=45 \\ \text{and} \\ x-y=13 \end{gathered}$

This way, we'll have the following system of equations:

$\begin{cases}x+y=45 \\ x-y=13\end{cases}$

Adding up both equations ansd sol, we get: