Question

Two numbers have a sum of 44. The larger number is 2 more than the smaller number. What is the smaller number?

17
21
23
19

Answer 1

The answer is 21.

Explanation:

If the numbers have a distance of 2 on a number line then we can break 44 into two pieces , we now have two equal pieces equivalent to 22, we now add to one piece one and we subtract one from the other piece creating a gap of 2 between the two numbers while the sum of both is still 44.

Answer 2

21

Explanation:

Smaller number = 21

Bigger number = 23

21 + 23 = 44