Question

The second number of two numbers is 6 more than the first. The sum of the numbers is 26. What are the two numbers?

Answer 1

First, let's assign some expressions to represent these two numbers for the problem.

Let the first number be equal to x
Let the second number be equal to x + 6

Second, according to your problem, the sum of these two expressions will be equal to 26, therefore we now have the following equation:

x + x + 6 = 26