SOLUTION: one number is 60 more than another. If the larger number is divided by the smaller number, the quotient is 4. What are the number?

SOLUTION: one number is 60 more than another. If the larger number is divided by the smaller number, the quotient is 4. What are the number?

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Question 258702: one number is 60 more than another. If the larger number is divided by the smaller number, the quotient is 4. What are the number?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the numbers be A and B.

.
.

Substitute this into the first equation and solve for B.

Then,

The two numbers are 20 and 80.
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