SOLUTION: choose the system of equations in x and y describing the situation. One number is 3 more than another number. If you add 12 to 4 times the first number, the result is 5 times the s

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Question 551183: choose the system of equations in x and y describing the situation. One number is 3 more than another number. If you add 12 to 4 times the first number, the result is 5 times the second number.

Answer by mananth(16946)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let one number be x & other y
x=3+y
12+4x= 5y

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