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The difference between two numbers is 4.If the sum of five times the smaller number and the bigger number is 58, what are the numbers?

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let the smaller be x
then the larger is x+4

Now just translate
"sum of five times the smaller number and the bigger number is 58 "
---> 5x + x+4 = 58

solve for x

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