SOLUTION: One positive number is 5 times another number. The difference between the two numbers is 164. What are the numbers ?
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Question 998539: One positive number is 5 times another number. The difference between the two numbers is 164. What are the numbers ?
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call the smaller number x. The larger is 5x.
Thus 5x - x = 164.
4x = 164
x = 41
5x = 205
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