The sum of two numbers is 45 . One number is 4 times as large as the other. What are the numbers?

Question

I am struggling on this word problem for math

Answer 1

You are dividing 45 into 5 parts, 4 parts for one number and one for the other number.

 

So 45/5 = 9 is the smaller number and 9*4 = 36 is the larger number.