SOLUTION: The difference of two numbers is 47. The second is 1 less than 3 times the first. What are the two numbers?
Answer:
One number is
And the other number is
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One number is
And the other number is
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Question 81737: The difference of two numbers is 47. The second is 1 less than 3 times the first. What are the two numbers?
Answer:
One number is
And the other number is
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let x=first number
then 3x-1=second number
Now we are told that:
(3x-1)-x=47 get rid of parens
3x-1-x=47 add 1 to both sides
3x-1+1-x=47+1 collect like terms
2x=48 divide both sides by 2
x=24 -------------------------------the first number
3x-1=3(24)-1=72-1=71----------------------------second number
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71-24=47
47=47
