Find two real numbers whose difference is S an whose product is a minimum

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I don't know what to do. Please explain?

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You want $x-y=S$ and $xy$ is minimum. Well $y=x-S$ so you need to minimize $x(x-S)$ which is a parabola. Do you know how to find the minimum of a parabola?