"THE" ordered pair"????? There are gazillions of ordered pairs that satisfy the equation 2x-5y=-1!!!!! Here are 40 of them: (-98,-39) (-93,-37) (-88,-35) (-83,-33) (-78,-31) (-73,-29) (-68,-27) (-63,-25) (-58,-23) (-53,-21) (-48,-19) (-43,-17) (-38,-15) (-33,-13) (-28,-11) (-23,-9) (-18,-7) (-13,-5) (-8,-3) (-3,-1) (2,1) (7,3) (12,5) (17,7) (22,9) (27,11) (32,13) (37,15) (42,17) (47,19) (52,21) (57,23) (62,25) (67,27) (72,29) (77,31) (82,33) (87,35) (92,37) (97,39) Edwin