Explanation:
It's most effective to use a contingency table because we have two variables here: 1) the responses, and 2) the party affiliation.
We can have the responses along the rows and the party affiliation along the columns, or vice versa.
See the example below. The values are completely random simply for the purpose of the example (and not drawn from any real life data source).
Answer:
<em>Numbers: 6 and -2</em>
Step-by-step explanation:
<u>Equations</u>
This question can be solved by inspection. It's just a matter of factoring 12 into two factors that sum 4. Both numbers must be of different signs and they are 6 and -2. Their sum is indeed 6-2=4 and their product is 6*(-2)=-12.
However, we'll solve it by the use of equations. Let's call x and y to the numbers. They must comply:
Solving [1] for y:
Substituting in [2]
Operating:
Rearranging:
Solving with the quadratic formula:
With a=1, b=-4, c=-12:
The solutions are:
This confirms the preliminary results.
Numbers: 6 and -2