The answer to your question is: Yes, someone undoubtedly can.
Although you haven't asked to be told or shown how to solve it, I'm here
already, so I may as well stick around and go through it with you.
The sheet is telling you to find the solutions to two equations, AND THEN
DO SOMETHING WITH THE TWO SOLUTIONS. But you've cut off the
instructions in the pictures, so all we have are the two equations, and
you'll have to figure out what to do with their solutions.
<u>First equation:</u>
(2/5) x - 6 = -2
Add 6 to each side:
(2/5) x = 4
Multiply each side by 5:
2x = 20
Divide each side by 2 :
<u>x = 10</u>
<u>Second equation:</u>
-3y + 1/4 = 13/4
Subtract 1/4 from each side:
-3y = 12/4
Multiply each side by 4 :
-12 y = 12
Divide each side by -12 :
<u> y = -1</u>
<span>The number of ways to permute three correct answers among five questions is 5Choose3 which is 5!/(3!*2!) which equals 10.
We must then have the correct answer three times which happens .25 of the time, and two wrong answers 75 of the time.
So the probability is 10*0.25^3*.75^2 which is 0.087890625 or roughly an 8.8% chance.</span>
The answer would be x=14/3 and x=-28/3. Hope this helps!
