SOLUTION: Please help me solve this word problem: One number is 8 more than 3 times another number. Their sum is 68. What are the numbers?

Question 673701: Please help me solve this word problem: One number is 8 more than 3 times another number. Their sum is 68. What are the numbers?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

given:
One number is than another number ...=>... .......1
their sum is ........2
solve the system:
.......1....plug value in eq. 2
........2
---------------------------
........2...solve for

now find
.......1

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