SOLUTION: The sum of two numbers is 50. Two times the first number is ten more than the second. Find the two numbers.
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Question 441228: The sum of two numbers is 50. Two times the first number is ten more than the second. Find the two numbers.
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let one number be x & the other y
1 x + 1 y = 50 .............1
2 x + -1 y = 10 .............2
Add the two equations
3 x = 60
/ 3
x = 20
plug value of x in (1)
1 x + 1 y = 50
20 + 1 y = 50
1 y = 50 -20
1 y = 30
y = 30
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