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The product of two numbers is 3675 and one of them is triple the other. What are the numbers? How do I do this by decomposing

Please, I need this.

User Jia Jimmy
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you start off with (x)+(3x)=3675, so you can find the value of x, so you combine to create 4x=3675. then you divide 3675 by 4 to get x=918.75. then you plug them into the equations to find your numbers.

so the numbers are 918.75, and 2756.25

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