{"id":17690,"date":"2026-05-02T18:34:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/algebra-word-problem-26\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:34:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:34:01","slug":"algebra-word-problem-26","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/algebra-word-problem-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Algebra Word Problem 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two numbers have sum 43. The larger number is 5 more than the smaller. Find the smaller number.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>43<\/li>\n<li>5<\/li>\n<li>24<\/li>\n<li>19<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2705,2537],"subject":[1425],"education_level":[1895],"class_list":["post-17690","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-algebra","topic-word-problems","subject-mathematics","education_level-ssc"],"mcq_note":"Let the smaller number be x because the question asks for the smaller number. Let the smaller number be x. The larger is x+5. Then 2x+5=43, giving x=19. Then write the larger number in terms of x, add both numbers, and set the sum equal to the given total. Solving gives the smaller number as 19.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"43"},{"right":"no","answer":"5"},{"right":"no","answer":"24"},{"right":"yes","answer":"19"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":1425,"title":"Mathematics","slug":"mathematics"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2705,"title":"Algebra","slug":"algebra"},{"id":2537,"title":"Word Problems","slug":"word-problems"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/17690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=17690"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=17690"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=17690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}