SOLUTION: One integer is two more than another. The sum of the lesser integer and twice the greater is 7. What is the greater integer?

Question 204422: One integer is two more than another. The sum of the lesser integer and twice the greater is 7. What is the greater integer?
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let n = the smaller integer, then n+2 = the larger integer.
"The sum of the lesser integer and twice the greater integer is 7." Simplify the left side.

Subtract 4 from both sides.
Divide both sides by 3.
so...

The greater integer is 3.
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