SOLUTION: The sum of two numbers is 24. Their difference is 4. What are the numbers?
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Question 660812: The sum of two numbers is 24. Their difference is 4. What are the numbers?
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TRANSLATING WORDS INTO EQUATIONS:
Let the two numbers be and with .
"The sum of two numbers is 24" translates as.
"Their difference is 4" translates as
Those two equations make up the system of linear equations
SOLVING BY ELIMINATION:
Adding the two equations, we get
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Substituting that into we get
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