Alexis sold 3/8 of her raffle tickets on the first day. She sold 88 raffle tickets during the first week and the remaining 32 ra
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Option B: is the value of y
Explanation:
It is given that "Two times x is 8 more than y". Writing it as expression, we have,
It is also given that "The sum of x and two times y is 14". Writing it as expression, we have,
To find the value of y, let us solve the two equations using substitution method.
From the equation , let us find the value of x.
Now, substituting in the equation
, we get,
Thus, the value of y is
Looking at the problem, what we must do to complete this question is to completely factor the expression that was provided. The expression that was provided is .
The first step that we must do is to take a look at the expression and see what the two pieces of the expression have in common. We can see that both and
have the number 5 and the variable c associated with them so we can factor out those two.
<u>Factor out 5c</u>
Now we have completely factored out the expression that was provided in the problem statement and we came to final answer of .