Homework Help: math/algebra

Posted by Diana on Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 11:26am.

The sum of tow numbers is 71. The second is 7 more than 3 time the first. What are the two numbers?

let x = the smaller number then you know that
7+3x +x =71

solve for x

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