SOLUTION: Can u help me please? What are two positive numbers with a difference of 8 where the larger number is twice the smaller minus 7?

Question 764660: Can u help me please? What are two positive numbers with a difference of 8 where the larger number is twice the smaller minus 7?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

let' two positive numbers be (larger) and (smaller)
if a difference is , then ......eq.1
if the larger number is twice the smaller minus , then .....eq.2
now solve the system:
......eq.1
.....eq.2
___________________________substitute from 2 in 1

......eq.1....solve for

now find
.....eq.2

so, two positive numbers are: and

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