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For two odd consecutive numbers, seven times the first number is 1 more than six times the greater number. What is the sum of those numbers?

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Answer:

  28

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent the even number between them. Then the desired sum is 2x.

The given relation is ...

  7(x -1) = 1 +6(x +1)

  x = 14 . . . . . . . add 7-6x

 2x = 28 = sum of those numbers

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The two numbers are 13 and 15.

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