SOLUTION: The difference between two numbers is 4. Two times the smaller number minus four times the larger is -28. What are the numbers?
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Question 337615: The difference between two numbers is 4. Two times the smaller number minus four times the larger is -28. What are the numbers?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let be the larger, the smaller.
1.
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2.
Add eq. 1 and eq. 2,
Then from eq. 1,
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