6.5 is the answer. You can check by 6.5x8=52
Answer:
The answer to your question is 14.5 weeks
Step-by-step explanation:
Data
Total cost = C = $87
money earned = m = $6
Number of weeks to have the money = w = ?
Process
1.- Write an equation that represents the situation
Weeks = Total cost / Money earned
w = C/m
2.- Substitute the values
w = 87 / 6
3.- Result
w = 14.5
4.- Conclusion
Niki will last 14.5 weeks to have enough money to buy a dog bed.
To solve this equation by elimination, what you would do is multiply one of the equations by -1, or distribute -1 to each term in the equation, any of the 2 equations. Then align the equations and add them together.
-(X + 3y = 3)
-X - 3y = -3
-X - 3y = -3
X + 6y = 3
__________
3y = 0
y = 0/3 = 0.
Now we can solve for x, by simply plugging the value of y into any of the 2 equations.
X + 6y = 3
X + 6(0) = 3
X + 0 = 3
X = 3.
The solution to your system of equations would be (3,0).
Check this by plugging in the point to the other equation and see if it is true.
X + 3y = 3
(3) + 3(0) = 3
3 + 0 = 3
3 = 3.
Thus it is the solution.
This is invisible math but a whole bumber cant be converted to a decimal because if you were to see the whoole thing it would be 400.0