SOLUTION: Find two numbers whose difference is 2 and four times the smaller minus three times the larger is 17.

Question 1169116: Find two numbers whose difference is 2 and four times the smaller minus three times the larger is
17.
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

let the larger number be and the smaller
if their difference is we have
....solve for
......eq.1
and if four times the smaller minus three times the larger is
, we have
......solve for

.....eq.2
from eq.1 and eq.2 we have
.....solve for

go to
......eq.1, substitute

so, two numbers are and

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