SOLUTION: One positive number is 5 times another number. The difference between the two numbers is 68, find the numbers

SOLUTION: One positive number is 5 times another number. The difference between the two numbers is 68, find the numbers

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Question 258426: One positive number is 5 times another number. The difference between the two numbers is 68, find the numbers
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call the numbers A and B.

Substitute for A in the second equation using the first equation.

Then,

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