Three times the larger of two numbers is equal to four times the smaller. The sum of the numbers is 21. How do you find the numbers?
1 Answer
See full process for solving this word problem below in the Explanation section:
Explanation:
Let us first deal with the first sentence of this word problem.
Let's call the larger number
We know from the first sentence:
We know from the second sentence:
Let's solve this second equation for
Now we can substitute
Next we can substitute
The larger number is 12 and the smaller number is 9