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One number is nine more than a second number. Four times the first is 6 less than 2 times the second. Find the numbers.

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Answer:

  -12, -21

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent the first number. Then the second is x-9. The other relation is ...

  4x = 2(x-9) -6

  2x = -24 . . . . . subtract 2x, simplify

  x = -12

  x-9 = -21

The first number is -12; the second number is -21.

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