The sum of three numbers is 69. If the second number is equal to the first diminished by 8, and the third number is 5 times the first. What are the numbers?

Answer 1

what do they tell you?
x+y+z = 69
y = x-8
z = 5x
Now just substitute for y and z to find x, and then evaluate y and z.

Answer 2

1st no. = X.
2nd no. = x-8.
3rd no. = 5x.

x + (x-8) + 5x = 69.
X = 11.
x-8 =
5x =