Find Two Numbers by Difference and Product Calculator

Welcome to the free online calculator to find two numbers by difference and product. For example, the difference of two numbers is 2 and their product is 224. What are the numbers?

There are two methods, one is the quadratic equation method and the other is the factor method.

Quadratic Equation Method

This is the most common method. In the above example, assuming the two numbers are x and y.

Now, we can list the two equations based on the problem description.

First equation:

x – y = 2

Second equation:

x * y = 224

Simplify the first equation, let x be represented by y.

x – y = 2

x = 2 + y

Substitute x = 2 + y into the second equation and simplify.

x * y = 224

(2 + y) * y = 224

2y + y² = 224

y² + 2y – 224 = 0

Now, we get a quadratic equation, the next key is to solve this quadratic equation. The answer to the quadratic equation can be calculated using the formula method or the factorization method. The factorization method is used directly here.

y² + 2y – 224 = 0

(y – 14) (y + 16) = 0

y = 14 or y = -16

When y = 14, according to the relationship between x and y, we can calculate the value of x.

x = 2 + y = 2 + 14 = 16

When y = -16, the same operation can be used to calculate x = -14.

Therefore, the two numbers are 14 and 16 or -14 and -16.

Is it right or not? Check it out!

16 – 14 = 2

16 * 14 = 224

Or

(-14) – (-16) = 2

(-14) * (-16) = 224

Yes, this is correct.

Factor Method

Since the product of two numbers is 224, the two numbers must be factors of 224, a pair of factors. Therefore, we calculate the pair factors of 224 first. With the find all factors calculator, we can easily get the pair factors of 224 are

(1, 224), (2, 112), (4, 56), (7, 32), (8, 28) and (14, 16)

The next problem is simple, just find out that the difference of the pairing factors is 2.

224 – 1 = 223

112 – 2 = 110

56 – 4 = 52

32 – 7 = 25

28 – 8 = 20

16 – 14 = 2

So, we get the answer is 14 and 16.

This method only calculates positive integers and ignores negative values. If necessary, add a negative sign in front of positive integers.

Well, these are two common solutions that, while simple, both require a certain amount of calculation. So, we developed this free calculator to find two numbers by difference and product. No calculations required and answers in milliseconds.

Next, we will introduce how to use the calculator.

Using the calculator is simple, follow these 3 steps:

Next, let’s look at some examples.