Problema Solution
The sum of two numbers is 100. One number is 4 more than three times the other number.
What are the numbers?
two numbers, from smallest to largest, seperated by a comma.
Answer provided by our tutors
let's say two numbers are x & y.
==> x + y = 100
one number is 4 more than three times the other number
==> y = 3x + 4
==> x + 3x + 4 = 100
==> 4x + 4 = 100
==> 4 (x+1) = 100
==> x + 1 = 100/4
==> x + 1 = 25
==> x = 24
==> y = 100-24 = 76.
Therefore, the two numbers are 24, 76.