SOLUTION: You have two unknown numbers. The two numbers add to 111 and one number is eleven more than three times the other. What is the larger number

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Question 1008654: You have two unknown numbers. The two numbers add to 111 and one number is eleven more than three times the other. What is the larger number
Answer by fractalier(6550) About Me  (Show Source):
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Call the numbers x and y. Then we have
x + y = 111
and
x = 3y + 11
Substitute that into the first equation and get
3y + 11 + y = 111
4y + 11 = 111
4y = 100
y = 25
x = 111-x = 86