document.write( "Question 662720: One number is four less than three times another. If their sum is increased buy five, the result is twenty-five. Find the numbers. I think it is 3x - 4= y + 5 = 25. Am I reading this correct? Or am I getting this wrong in some places? Help please? \n" ); document.write( "
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One number is four less than three times another.
\n" ); document.write( " If their sum is increased buy five, the result is twenty-five.
\n" ); document.write( " Find the numbers. I think it is 3x - 4= y + 5 = 25. Am I reading this correct? Or am I getting this wrong in some places? Help please?
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\n" ); document.write( "Let x = one number
\n" ); document.write( "Let y = another number
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\n" ); document.write( "The word \"is\" usually indicates an equal sign, write two separate equations
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\n" ); document.write( "x = 3y - 4
\n" ); document.write( "and
\n" ); document.write( "x + y + 5 = 25
\n" ); document.write( "x + y = 25 - 5
\n" ); document.write( "x + y = 20
\n" ); document.write( "x = (20-y), use this for substitution for x in the first equation
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\n" ); document.write( "20 - y = 3y - 4
\n" ); document.write( "20 + 4 = 3y + y
\n" ); document.write( "24 = 4y
\n" ); document.write( "y = 24/4
\n" ); document.write( "y = 6
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\n" ); document.write( "Use the first equation to find x, replace y with 6
\n" ); document.write( "x = 3(6) - 4
\n" ); document.write( "x = 18 - 4
\n" ); document.write( "x = 14
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\n" ); document.write( "Check solution in the statement:
\n" ); document.write( "\"If their sum is increased buy five, the result is twenty-five. \"
\n" ); document.write( "14 + 6 + 5 = 25
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