Question

The sum of two numbers is 24. The first number is1/5 ofv the second number. What are the numbers?

Answer 1

Write two equations and solve simultaneously

Answer 2

the answers are 4 and 20 btw

Answer 3

Another way to think about it is that the second number is five times the first. That gives you a pretty easy equation\[k+ 5k=6k=24 \implies k=4 \implies 5k = 20\]This is the same answer PeterOrsome got above.