SOLUTION: One number is 6 less than another number. Their sum is 20. Find the greater number?

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Question 73156: One number is 6 less than another number. Their sum is 20. Find the greater number?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let one number be m and another be n. If m is 6 less than n then it looks like this

Here's the sum of the 2 numbers
Plug in into m of
Solve for n



Find the smaller number

So the greater number is 13 and the smaller number is 7
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