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The difference between half of a number and 19.
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The difference between half of a number and 19.

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The difference between two numbers is 19. Half the larger number plus twice the smaller number is 12. What are the numbers?

This is the equation I came up with but I can't make it work.
x-y=19
1/2x+2y=12
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