The product of two numbers is 25. The sum of their squares is 194. The difference of the two numbers will be?

Explanation

Let the two numbers be x and y. Then \((x-y)^{2}=x^{2}+y^{2}-2 x y\). Using the given information, we get \((x-y)^{2}=194-2(25)=144\)  and \((x-y)=12\)

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