SOLUTION: one integer is three more than another integer. The sum of the two integers is forty-seven. Find the integers

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Question 346683: one integer is three more than another integer. The sum of the two integers is forty-seven. Find the integers
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Let represent the second integer. Then must represent the first integer.

Their sum is 47, so:



Solve for to get one, add three to the result to get the other.

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