SOLUTION: One number is five more than another, and their sum is three less than three times the smaller. Find the numbers.If x represents the smaller number, which equation could be used to

Question 315161: One number is five more than another, and their sum is three less than three times the smaller. Find the numbers.If x represents the smaller number, which equation could be used to solve for x?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the two numbers be and .
1.
2.
Substitute eq. 1 in eq. 2 to remove y.

Then from eq. 1,

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