SOLUTION: ONe number is 25% of another The larger number is 12 more than the smaller. What are the numbers?

SOLUTION: ONe number is 25% of another The larger number is 12 more than the smaller. What are the numbers?

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Question 182732: ONe number is 25% of another The larger number is 12 more than the smaller. What are the numbers?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The number that is 25% of the other is the smaller.
Call the smaller number
Call the larger number
given:

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By substitution:

Subtract from both sides

and

The smaller number is 4 and the larger is 16

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