To figure out if the ordered pairs are a solution to the equations, you would need to plug in the points. Your points are ordered as (x,y)
You would plug in the number that's in the x spot in x, and the number in the y spot in y.
Let's start of with the first problem:
First thing you would do is plug in (-1) to x, and 6 to y.
Your equations would look like this:
6(-1) + 3(6) = 18
2(-1) + 6 = 7
What you would now do is solve the equations. When you solve them, you would get these answers
12 = 18
4 = 7
For #1, it would be no solution because the numbers do not equal each other. (Fun fact) If one of them ends up as a solution, but the other is no solution, the answer would be no solutions because BOTH of them have to be a solution to the equations given in order to be a solution.
If you do the same strategy, (plugging in the numbers to x and y), you would get the rest of the answers for the problems.
I hope this helps, if you need any more assistance, I would be glad to help!
One way is to make them all decimals or all fractions:
.5 .2 .35 .48 .80 are the numbers above changed to decimals.
I will make them the same length (two digit past the decimal point) to compare
.50 .20 .35 .48 and .80
Now it is easy to put them in order
.2 .35 .48 .5 and .80
Let's put them into all fractions
5/10 1/5 35/100 12/25 and 4/5
Instead of finding a common denominator let's try this:
Think of them as test scores - the person who got 1 out 5 did the worst
Next came the person who got only 35 out of 100 - they only did better than the one above (1/5)
12/25 is almost 1/2 but a little below half the questions right
5/10 is exactly half the questions right (so it is bigger than 12/25 by a little).
4/5 is the best score (and the only one who passed).
So 1/5, 35/100, 12/25, .5 and 4/5 are in order least to greatest and match the answer above in bold.
The sign would be negative because there is an odd number of negatives. If there were an even number of negatives it would be positive.
Multiply -5 by -1
The answer would be -5/2
