Question

Students in a poetry class are writing poems for their portfolios. The teacher wants them to write stanzas with certain numbers of lines each. Bryce wrote 2 short stanzas and 6 long stanzas, for a total of 64 lines. Anita wrote 2 short stanzas and 4 long stanzas, for a total of 46 lines. How many lines do the two sizes of stanzas contain?

Answer 1

The short stanzas contain 5 lines and the long ones contain 14 lines.

Explanation:

To solve using elimination, follow these four steps:

Step 1: Make sure the equations have opposite x terms or opposite y terms.

Step 2: Add to eliminate one variable and solve for the other.

Step 3: Plug the result of Step 2 into one of the original equations and solve.

Step 4: State the solution.

Answer 2

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Explanation: