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Which two numbers whose different is 8 have the smallest product? What is that product?

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4 and -4. So our numbers can be assumed to be x and x+8. For above expression minimum possible value is of course -16 which shows up when x+4 becomes 0. Thus the two numbers we are talking about must be 4 and -4.
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