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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".

I sent a pic to the app and it gave me an answer my class hasn't gone over and so-example-1
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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:


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