SOLUTION: The sum of two numbers is 34 and the difference is 8 What are the numbers?
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Question 1103778: The sum of two numbers is 34 and the difference is 8 What are the numbers?
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The sum of two numbers is 34
a + b = 34
and the difference is 8
a - b = 8
What are the numbers?
use elimination
a + b = 34
a - b = 8
-----------addition eliminates b, find a
2a + 0 = 42
a = 42/2
a = 21
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Ill let you find b , check the solutions in both equations
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