SOLUTION: one positive number is one-fifth of another number, the difference between the two numbers is 116, find the numbers.

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Question 352660: one positive number is one-fifth of another number, the difference between the two numbers is 116, find the numbers.
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Let the two numbers be and ,


Substitute,



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