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The difference of two natural numbers is 3 and the difference of their reciprocals is `3/(28)` . Find the numbers.

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7 and 4
Let the required numbers be x and `(x-3)`. Then,
`(1)/((x-3))-(1)/(x)=(3)/(28).`
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