SOLUTION: One number is 9 times another number. If the sum of the two numbers is 280, find the numbers

Question 1038298: One number is 9 times another number. If the sum of the two numbers is 280, find the numbers
Answer by Othel(27) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let us represent the first of the unknown numbers with .
We know that the second of the unknown numbers is 9 times larger than the first, so let us represent it as .
We have been told that these two numbers added together are equal to 280, so...

Add...

Now divide both sides by 10...

So the first of the numbers is 28, and the second is , which equals 252.
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