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Genrish500 [490]
3 years ago
7

The sum of two numbers is 24. One number is 8 less than the other number. let x and y be the two numbers. What are the two numbe

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Mathematics
2 answers:
diamong [38]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

16 and 8 are the numbers

Step-by-step explanation:

Sedbober [7]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

x=8,y=16

Step-by-step explanation:

x+y=24

x=x

y=x+8

x+(x+8)=24

2x+8=24

2x=24-8

2x=16

x=16/2

x=8

y=x+8=16

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