SOLUTION: The sum of a lesser number and twice a greater number equals 8. The sum of twice the lesser number and the greater number equals-6. What are the two numbers?

Question 258665: The sum of a lesser number and twice a greater number equals 8. The sum of twice the lesser number and the greater number equals-6. What are the two numbers?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let A be the smaller number, B the larger.
1.
2.
Multiply the first equation by -2 and add to the second,

Then from eq. 1,

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