 ... the quotient is 2 and the remainder 2. Find the numbers. Let x = the greater number, and y = the smaller number. Then 5^ = 4, and x From the solution of these equations x = 47, and y - 11.  A School Algebra - Page 226by George Albert Wentworth - 1890 - 495 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Albert Wentworth - Algebra - 1898 - 434 pages
...much money as B ; but if B gave A $100, B would have one third as much as A. How much has each '/ 4. If the greater of two numbers is divided by the / smaller, the quotient is 7 and the remainder 4 ; but if three times the greater number is divided by twice the smaller, the... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1898 - 424 pages
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 | Edward Brooks - Algebra - 1901 - 248 pages
...would it last them both ? CASE IV. 1. The sum of two numbers is a, and their difference is b; what are the numbers? Let x — the greater number, and ' y • • the smaller number. Then, £+y — a, and x—y — b. ,_. Whence x — 2 ab and »- — • These formulas, expressed in ordinary... | |
 | George Washington Hull - Algebra - 1904 - 172 pages
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 | George Albert Wentworth - Algebra - 1906 - 924 pages
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 | George Albert Wentworth - Algebra - 1906 - 440 pages
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 | James William Nicholson - Algebra - 1909 - 332 pages
...other. What time is it ? SUM AND DIFFERENCE 132. The sum of two numbers is s and their difference is d. Find the numbers. Let x = the greater number, and y = the smaller number. Then x + y=s, (1) and x - y = d. (2) 2x = s + d. (3) (l)-(2) 2y = sd. (5) (5)+2, У=~. (6> л Formulas (4)... | |
 | John Charles Stone, James Franklin Millis - Algebra - 1911 - 698 pages
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 | George Wentworth, David Eugene Smith - Algebra - 1913 - 478 pages
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 | Frederick Howland Somerville - Algebra - 1913 - 458 pages
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