To solve this problem let first suppose Garden View Hotel is "x" and the Plaza Hotel is "y" so the first equation as it says in the question will be 17x- 2y =0 and the second equation will be their combined height which is x+y =361 . Now let's solve both the equations simultaneously to get the height of GardenView Hotel.
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Now multiply the second whole equation by 2 so that we can eliminate y from both the equations , after doing that the final equation is and if we calculate x from this we will get the height of gardenview hotel which is 38 feet.