SOLUTION: I just can’t remember how to do this, the ratio of two numbers in 5/6. The second number is 16 less than twice the first number. I have to find both numbers and I need your h

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Question 6545: I just can’t remember how to do this, the ratio of two numbers in 5/6. The second number is 16 less than twice the first number. I have to find both numbers and I need your help!
-thanx
J.B
Answer by ichudov(507)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
that's a problem of translating English to Algebrese. Name these two numbers: x is te first number and y is the second.



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(x=20, y=24}
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