3 years ago

Find three positive numbers whose sum is 12 and the sum of whose squares is as small as possible.

Mathematics

2 answers:

denis-greek [22]3 years ago

8 0

Answer:

4, 4, and 4.

Oksana_A [137]3 years ago

6 0

ive checked some and

4+4+4

16+16+16=48

seems to work

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