Question

URGENT

Translate into an equation. (Use x to represent the smaller number. Translate the second sentence to write your equation.)

The sum of two numbers is fourteen. The total of three times the smaller and twice the larger is thirty-one.

Answer 1

small number=3 while Big number is, 13

Explanation:

X+y=14

3x+2y=31

3(x+y=14)

3x+3y=42 + 3x+2y=31

X=3,y=11