I'll go out on a limb and suppose you're given the matrix

and you're asked to find the determinant of

, where

and given that

.
There are two properties of the determinant that come into play here:
(1) Whenever a single row/column is scaled by a constant

, then the determinant of the matrix is scaled by that same constant;
(2) Adding/subtracting rows does not change the value of the determinant.
Taken together, we have that
Answer:
234
Step-by-step explanation:
So what we know is that
5x+9x= students
This equation is saying that for every 5 boys there are 9 girls
we can then plug in 364 for the number of students and add like terms
This means that 14x=364
this means that x=26
This means that there are 26 sets of 5 boys and 9 girls
this means that there are
130 boys
234 girls
x is a variable which in math means an unknown number, since 2+2=4 the answer (If your trying to find what x is) would be x=4.
Answer:
x+y=31
Step-by-step explanation:
I'd say that would be the equation bc it doesn't really give ages. Although I could be wrong so sorry if I am