SOLUTION: How can you translate the word problem, "the sum of two numbers is 141. one number is 37 more than the other. Find the numbers," into a system of equations?
i tried solving it a
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Question 133079: How can you translate the word problem, "the sum of two numbers is 141. one number is 37 more than the other. Find the numbers," into a system of equations?
i tried solving it and the numbers were 52 and 89 is that right?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You would do the following translation:
"the sum of two numbers is 141" ---->
"one number is 37 more than the other" ---->
You have the correct answer.
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