SOLUTION: One number is 5 times another. The sum of the numbers is 72. What are the numbers?

Question 159292: One number is 5 times another. The sum of the numbers is 72. What are the numbers?
Answer by jojo14344(1513) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

let 1st number = x
2nd number = 5x
So it follows,

----------->
, 1st number
, 2nd number
Go back eqn,

Thank you,
Jojo
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