The sum of two numbers is 40. When the greater number is divided by the smaller, the quotient is 4 and the remainder is 5. What are the numbers?
1 Answer
May 15, 2018
num1
num2
Explanation:
Let num1 = x and num2 = y
We know that
eq1:
eq2:
We solve these simultaneous equations by solving for one variable, in this case, I solve for
We substitute this value of
We simplify and solve for y
We substitute