SOLUTION: The sum of two numbers is 41 and the difference is 5. What are the numbers?
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Question 447783: The sum of two numbers is 41 and the difference is 5. What are the numbers?
i would like the answer but i would like to know how to do this
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let one number be x
other be y .... x>y
x+y = 41
x-y =5
Add the two equations
2x=46
/2
x=23
ao y= 41-23=18
(23, 18)
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