SOLUTION: Please translate the problem into a pair of linear equations in two vaiables. Solve the equations using either elimination or substitution and state the answer for both variables.

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Question 295702: Please translate the problem into a pair of linear equations in two vaiables. Solve the equations using either elimination or substitution and state the answer for both variables.
The difference of two numbers is 88. The second number is 20% of the first number. What are the numbers?
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Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First name your variables, and .
1.
2.
Use eq. 2 in eq.1,



Then from eq. 2,


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