Question

I sent a pic to the app and it gave me an answer my class hasn't gone over and so I need someone to walk through the equation with me. The instructions say "solve the systems by elimination".

Answer 1

The linear system:

`\begin{gathered} (1)/(4)x+4y=2+(3)/(4) \\ 3x+(1)/(2)y=9+(1)/(4) \end{gathered}`

Let's follow the steps to solve this linear system.

1) Multiply one equation by a constant to set up the elimination of one of the variables.

You can multiply equation 2 by - 8: