SOLUTION: The product of a positive number and eight more than four times the number is 192. Find the two numbers.

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Question 980843: The product of a positive number and eight more than four times the number is 192. Find the two numbers.
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Let represent the first number. Then the second number must be . The product of these two numbers is and is equal to 192, so:



Solve the factorable quadratic and discard the negative root. Then calculate

John

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