SOLUTION: One number is 2 Times another. If you subtract 10 from each number, the sum is 40, what are the numbers?

Question 9783: One number is 2 Times another. If you subtract 10 from each number, the sum is 40, what are the numbers?
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x be the 1st number and y be the 2nd number.
Then:
and
Substiute x = 2y from the 1st equation.
Simplify and solve for y.
Add 40 to both sides.
Divide both sides by 3.

Check:

and:
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