10 - Quadratic Word Problems - Numbers

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Quadratic Word Problems – Number Problems

1. The sum of two integers is 96. Their product is 1728. What are the numbers?

2. Alice is ten years younger than double Ben’s age. The sum of the squares of their ages is 520.
How old is each person?
3. The product of two consecutive numbers is 10920. What are the numbers?

Practice
1. The product of two numbers is 65. Their difference is 8. What are the numbers?

2. A number squared equals six times the same number. What is the number?

3. The sum of the squares of two consecutive even integers is 1684. What are the numbers?

4. Maja has 6 more heart stickers than star stickers. When the total number of stickers is squared, the
answer is 2304. How many of each type of sticker does she have?

5. Elsa is half of Yan’s age. The difference between the squares of Yan and Elsa’s ages is 675. How
old is each person?

Answers:

1] -13 and –5 or 13 and 5 2] 0 or 6 3] 28 and 30 or –28 and –30 4] 21 star, 27 heart 5] Elsa: 15, Yan = 30

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