SOLUTION: One positive number is 8 times another number. Their difference is 70. Find the numbers.
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Question 172255: One positive number is 8 times another number. Their difference is 70. Find the numbers.
Answer by EMStelley(208) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call the other number x. Then "one positive number is 8 times another" would be 8x. If their difference is 70, that means that
8x-x=70
7x=70
x=10
So one number is 10 and the other number is 80.
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