The manager already hired 9 people. Let be the number of people he still can hire. Since these people will add to the 9 he already hired, when the hiring campaign will be over he will have hired
people. We know that he can't hire more than 14 people, so the number of people hired must be less than or equal to 14:
If we subtract 9 from both sides, we have
so, the manager can hire at most 5 other people
Answer:
x=2, y=4
Step-by-step explanation:
When using elimination, the objective is to elimate one variable. In this case, we see that "y" can easily be eliminated by adding the two equations together since you will get 3y + (-3y) which will eliminate y because the value would become 0, letting us solve for x.
Then we get
, because the y's will eliminated, and 8x+7x is 15x, and 28+2 is 30.
Then divide by 15 on both sides and you get x=2
If x=2, then we can substitute that value into any of the previous given equations and find the value of y.
8×2 +3y = 28
16+3y=28
3y=12
y=4
So the answer to your system of equations would be x=2, and y=4
You can substitute the answers we found to see that they satisfy the equation.
Hope this helped.