SOLUTION: One positive number is 3 times another number. The difference between the two numbers is 62. Find the numbers. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list.)

SOLUTION: One positive number is 3 times another number. The difference between the two numbers is 62. Find the numbers. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list.)

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Question 1146694: One positive number is 3 times another number. The difference between the two numbers is 62. Find the numbers. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list.)
Answer by HEY654321(7) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the other number be "x"
positive no.=3x
3x-x=62,
Solve,
2x=62
x=31
Therefore positive number is 93 and the other number is 31.
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