The scoring for a particular math contest that is all multiple choice is as follows: The student starts with an automatic 40 points. For each correct answer, the student receives 5 points. For each incorrect answer , the student loses 2 points this is done to prevent guessing ) . Jonathan participates in the contest. He answers x questions correctly and y questions incorrectly . Write an equation that could be used to calculate his final score

Okay so n is going to represent our first number. since the second number of five times greater than n, the second number will be represented as 5n. for us to figure out the two  numbers we need to have  the value of n first. this is going to be done by adding the two numbers together, n and 5n. it can be simplified as 6n, which the problem states is equal to 72. divide 72 by 6n and you can solve for n.  n+5n=726n=72n=(72/6)n=12  now that we know the value of n, we have to multiply 5 times 12 which equals 60. so our two numbers/integers are 12 and 60