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Please Help! One natural number is 4 more than the other one. The product of the two numbers is three times the square of the smaller number. Find the numbers.​

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Let n and n+4 be the numbers. Then:

n² + 3(n+4)=66

n²+3n-54=0

(n+9)(n-6)=0

n=6 or -9

n+4=10

Assuming positive integers only, the numbers are 6 and 10…..

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Answer:

2 and 6

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