SOLUTION: Ratio between two number is 2:3 and their sum is 420. The greater of two number is ?

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Question 838203: Ratio between two number is 2:3 and their sum is 420. The greater of two number is ?
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let and be the numbers.

1.
and

Multiply eq. 2 by and substitute from eq. 1,




Then from eq. 1,
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