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Solve these simultaneous equations: 3y + x = 18 and x - 4y = -10.

Write x in terms of y using one of the equations. Then substitute it in the second equation, which is then only in terms of y. Find y. Then you can easily find x.

Answer: x = 6 and y = 4.

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How do you solve simultaneous equations?

The easiest way to solve simultaneous equations is by elimination. This is the idea of cancelling out one of your variables, the X or Y so that you can solve the remaining variable and then substitute thi...

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Expand (x+4)(x+3).

To answer this you multiply everything in the left bracket by everything in the right bracket, so rewrite the equation as x(x+3)+4(x+3). Then you can expand each more easily:

x(x+3) = x

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Simplify: 2x +6y +2y - x

collect x terms together i.e.) 2x - X = 1x and then collect y terms together i.e) 6y + 2y = 8y add your two answers together to get: x + 8y

Answer x +8y

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If a and b are the roots of the quadric polynomial 2x^2+6x+7 what are a+b and ab?

The phrase "a and b are roots of 2x^2+6x+7" is just a way of saying that x=a and x=b solve the equation 2x^2+6x+7=0. Check out that by diving by 2 on both sides of this equation we get that that...

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