July 2021
Problem of the Month

Oxford Problem

In the book, Lewis Carroll in Numberland, the author mentions that one of the problems that Lewis Carroll encountered at Oxford in 1854 was to solve the following equations:

x³ - y³ = 98
x - y = 2

Can you solve for x and y?   Show all work.

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