SOLUTION: One number is fourteen more than twice another. If their sum is decreased by nine, the result is seventeen. Find the numbers. (Enter solutions from smallest to largest.)
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Question 201832: One number is fourteen more than twice another. If their sum is decreased by nine, the result is seventeen. Find the numbers. (Enter solutions from smallest to largest.) Answer by checkley77(12844) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! x=2y+14
x+y-9=14
x=y=14+9
x+y=23
x=-y+23 multiply by 2 & add these 2 equations.
x=2y+14
2x=-2y+46
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3x=60
x=60/3
x=20 ans.
20=2y+14
20-14=2y
2y=6
y=6/2
y=3 ans.
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