Question

Find x and y
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Answer 1

Since this is a square, all of the sides are equal to each other.

That means we can take the two sides with an
`x` term in them (the bottom and the right ones) and set up an equation that has them equal to each other and then solve for
`x`:

`3x = 5x - 4`

Let's move the terms with an
`x` to the left side of the equation:

`3x - 5x = -4`

`-2x = -4`

Now we can divide both sides by -2 to get
`x` by itself.

`-2x = -4`

`x = 2`

We can plug this into either of those sides to get the length of the sides of the square:

`3x`

`3(2)`

`6`

Now that we know each side of the square is of length 6, we can take one of the remaining sides and set it equal to 6 and solve for
`y`:

`5y + 1 = 6`

`5y = 6 - 1`

`5y = 5`

`y = 1`