SOLUTION: Find two consecutive even numbers such that three times the smaller added to eight times the greater comes to 170

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Question 1030947: Find two consecutive even numbers such that three times the smaller added to eight times the greater comes to 170
Answer by fractalier(6550) About Me  (Show Source):
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Call the two numbers x and x+2. Then we can write
3x + 8(x+2) = 170
Now solve for x:
3x + 8x + 16 = 170
11x + 16 = 170
11x = 154
x = 14
so that
x+2 = 16