Two numbers have a sum of 44. The larger number is 2 more than the smaller number. What is the smaller number?

17
21
23
19

The answer is 21.

Step-by-step explanation:

If the numbers have a distance of 2 on a number line then we can break 44 into two pieces , we now have two equal pieces equivalent to 22, we now add to one piece one and we subtract one from the other piece creating a gap of 2 between the two numbers while the sum of both is still 44.

Adilation using a dilation factor of 1/2 means that the size of the of the image is half the size of the pre-image.given that square rstu is constructed with line pq drawn through its center and if the square is dilated using a scale factor of 1/2 and a line is drawn through the center of the new dilated figure, the relationship that the new line will have with line pq is that the measure of the new line is half of the measure of line pq.