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UKMT Maclaurin Olympiad, 2018

Algebra Difficulty 3.0 AMC 10/12 Prove it United Kingdom

The sum of the squares of two real numbers is equal to fifteen times their sum. The difference of the squares of the same two numbers is equal to three times their difference. Find all possible pairs of numbers that satisfy the above criteria.

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