• What is the solution to 5x+ 20 = 7(x+2)?
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For this case we must find the solution of the following equation:
Applying distributive property on the right side of the equation we have:
Subtracting 7x from both sides of the equation:
Subtracting 20 from both sides of the equation:
Different signs are subtracted and the major sign is placed.
Dividing between -2 on both sides of the equation:
Thus, the solution of the equation is
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Answer:
(0, 1).
Method 1 (Substitution):
Substituting our two y's, we get the following:
Thus, the only set of solutions is (0, 1). A quick sketch (either by hand or on Desmos) can confirm this.
Method 2 (Elimination):
We have two equations. We'll let the top one be equation 1 and the bottom one be equation 2. Eliminating as many variables as we can, we subtract (2) from (1) to get:
0 = 3x => x = 0.
So the only set of solutions is (0, 1).
Method 3 (Gaussian elimination):
We can place this in an augmented matrix and row reduce.
Row reducing this gives us:
This tells us that the only solution for x is x = 0 (since we read this as "3x = 0") and thus, the only solution we get is (0, 1).