Question

The square of one number is 23 less than the square of a second number. If the second number is 1 more than the first,

what are the two numbers?
If x represents the smaller number, then which of the following quadratic equations represents the word problem?

Answer 1

The two numbers are 11 and 12. Both of those numbers squared are 121 and 144. I can’t answer the second question since you didn’t post a picture of it.