SOLUTION: A positive number is 5 times another number. If 21 is added to both the numbers, then one of the new numbers becomes twice the other new number. What are the numbers?

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Question 479021: A positive number is 5 times another number. If 21 is added to both the numbers,
then one of the new numbers becomes twice the other new number. What are the
numbers?

Answer by wilft1(217)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
7 and 35
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