She made the mistake in step 4
She should have divided by -2 not just 2 alone
He grates 6/8 pounds of cheese in all.
For this problem, you just have to add the numerators and keep the denominators.
4/8 + 2/8 = 6/8.
Remember, if the denominator is the same, just add the numerator.
Given:

And

Required:
To find the two possible values of c.
Explanation:
Consider

So

And also given

Now from (1) and (2), we get


Now put a in (1) we get

We can interpret that either of a or b are equal to 3 or 5.
When a=3 and b=5, we have

When a=5 and b=3, we have

Final Answer:
The option D is correct.
31 and 41
Since both equations equal Y, set them equal to each other and solve.
3x -1 = -2x +9
Add 2x to each side:
5x - 1 = 9
Add 1 to each side:
5x = 10
Divide both sides by 5:
x = 10/5
x = 2
Now replace x with 2 and solve for y:
y = 3(2) -1 = 6-1 = 5
x = 2, y = 5 (2,5)