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The sum of three numbers is 110. The third number is 3 times the first. The second number is 5 more than the first. What are the numbers? Please help me I've been trying to figure it out for a while but
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The sum of three numbers is 110. The third number is 3 times the first. The second number is 5 more than the first. What are the numbers?

Please help me I've been trying to figure it out for a while but I cant

User Tushar Garg
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Answer:

The numbers are 63, 26, & 21

Explanation:

110 = 3x + (5 + x) + x

105 = 3x + 2x

105 = 5x

21 = x

Plug it back into the first equation to find your values

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