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What does x = ?
If you can't see the numbers I can type them

What does x = ? If you can't see the numbers I can type them-example-1

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So you know that:

2x+y=14+y
and
5x-y=x+13y

Here you have two equations with two unknown variables:
If you isolate x from the second equations you get:
x=(7/2)y
Insert that in the first equations and solve for y:
2*(7/2)y+y=14+y
y=2

Insert that value for y in one of the two equations (i chose the first):
2x+2=14+2
x=7

Therefore x=7

Hope that helped.

Actually you could start with isolating x, and then insert that in one of the two equations.
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