Question 370635: please answer the following question:
1) The difference between two numbers is 7.Six times the smaller plus the larger is 77.Find the numbers
Answer by robertb(5830)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! l - s = 7, and 6s + l = 77.
From the first we get l = s + 7. Substitute into the second: 6s + s+7 = 77.
7s = 70,
s = 10, the smaller number, and
l = s+7 = 17, the larger number.
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