Question 558780: The Diffrence Of Two Numbers is 26. The Largest Number Is 8 More than twice The Smaller. Findd the Numbers. Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! let numbers be x & y
x-y =26................(1)
x= 8 +2y
x-2y=8.................(2)
multiply equation (1) by -1 and add the equation to (2)
-x-2y=-26
-4y=-18
/-4
y= -18/-4
y=9/2
plug y in (1)
