Question

Please explain how to use cancellation method with examples. I'm really confused...​

Answer 1

Answer:

Cancellation it enables us to eliminate or get rid of one of the variables, so we can solve a more simplified equation.

Some textbooks refer to the elimination method as the addition method or the method of linear combination.

This is because we are going to combine two equations with addition!

Step 1

First, we align each equation so that like variables are organized into columns.

Step 2

Second, we eliminate a variable.

If the coefficients of one variable are opposites, you add the equations to eliminate a variable, and then solve.

If the coefficients are not opposites, then we multiply one or both equations by a number to create opposite coefficients, and then add the equations to eliminate a variable and solve.

Step 3

Thirdly, we substitute this value back into one of the original equations and solve for the other variable.

 

Example of how to apply the elimination method for solving systems of equations is attached.