Homework Help: math word problem

Posted by chong on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 9:49am.

the difference between two numbers is 55. four times the smaller number plus 5 times the larger number is 176. what are the numbers?

L-S=55
4S+5L=176

solve by substution.

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