I think the answers would be 2
I wanna say (C) would be your best bet correct me if I’m wrong
Answer:
x = -1, and y = -2, giving you the answer (-1, -2)
Step-by-step explanation:
In the second equation, we're told that y is equal to 2x. With that, we can replace "y" in the first one with "2x", giving us:
-4x - 2x = 6
-6x = 6
x = -1
Now that we know the value of x, we can simply plug it into the first equation to find y:
-4x - y = 6
-4(-1) - y = 6
4 - y = 6
-4 + y = -6
y = -6 + 4
y = -2
So x = -1, and y = -2
In order to answer this question, we must break this mathematical expression up into a series of mathematical operations (exponent, multiplication,division, addition, and/or subtraction):
"4 times a number" - The word "times" implies that we have to multiply 4 by an unknown number. We can simply label this unknown number as x.
"cubed" - In order to "cube" a number, we must raise it to the third power, or have an exponent of 3. Our unknown number of x now becomes x3 because we raised it to the third power.
"decreased by 7" - The word "decreased" implies that we must subtract 7 from the product of 4 multiplied by x3
With all of the information we now have, we can form an algebraic expression for this problem.
"4 times a number cubed decreased by 3" now becomes:
4x3 - 7
