The area of a certain desert (desert 1) is six times the area of another desert (desert 2). if the sum of their areas is 14000000 square miles, find the area of each desert.

Let the area of desert two be x square miles , and the area of desert 1 is 6 times of the area of desert 2. So area of desert 1 is 6x square miles .

And it is given that the total area of the two deserts is 14000000 square miles.

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So the area of second desert is 2000000 square miles and of first desert is 12000000 square miles .