Will Install discs work on both imacs?

Hi i have two intel 20" imacs (both core 2 duo 2.16ghz with model identifier iMac5,1) that were bought about 1 month apart but i only have the install discs for one of them - i don't actually need to do a clean install yet but i was wondering if the install discs would work on both machines.. the numbers that are on the disc don't seem to correspond to any numbers on the machine they came with.
Both machines have the same SMC version number but the boot ROM version number is out by one digit at the end (i don't even know if these numbers are relevant to the install discs!) could someone possibly help? I'm just trying to avoid having to pay for new discs if there's a chance these ones would work on the other machine.
thanks.

Hello,
The discs should be functional on both computers.
If you would like to test, you can try to boot the computers from the discs to see if you can. If the discs are the wrong versions they will give you an error explaining as much.

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