Question

Use elimination/linear combination to solve the following.
please help

Answer 1

Explanation:

3x + 4y = 17

5x - 4y = 7

you can thus cancel out 4y

Hence

8x = 24

Hence x = 3

Substituting’

3(3) + 4y = 17

9 + 4y = 17

Hence 17 - 9/4

= y = 2

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