document.write( "Question 836732: the sum and difrence of two numbers are 32 and 16 respectively. find the numbers?
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Let the numbers be x and y\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Equation 1 minus equation 2\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "x+y=32
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "2y=16
\n" ); document.write( "y=8. \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Putting y=8 into equations 1\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "x+8=32
\n" ); document.write( "x=32-8
\n" ); document.write( "x=24\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Hence the numbers are 24 and 8
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