Question

One positive integer is 2

less than twice another. The sum of their squares is 628

what is the integers.

Answer 1

The statement of the problem is easily converted to two equations, the first of which will be x = 2y -2.

Write the second equation based on the second sentence.

Now you have a system of two equations with two unknowns. Substitute into the second equation,u sing the first equation.

That gives you a quadratic equation in y. Solve that!