SOLUTION: The sum of two numbers is 89. Adding four times the first number to the second number gives 155. What is the number.

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Question 126292: The sum of two numbers is 89. Adding four times the first number to the second number gives 155. What is the number.
Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

let numbers be and
given:
……….(1)
………(2)
solution:
Solve the system:

……….(1)
……….plug in (2)

………(2)









……….
……….

Check:
……….(1)


………(2)





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