adding the 2 equations, we see the X's go away and we are left with: 10y=10. we can simplify and solve for y by dividing both sides by 10 and we are left with y=1
plugging 'y=1' into the fist equation we get: -7x+6=34. we can now solve for x by subtracting 6 from both sides and dividing both side by –7, so we are left with: x=–4
we can check by plugging both x and y into one of the original equations: