Instead of doing your problem for you, I will do one exactly
in every detail step-by-step like your problem. All you have
to do is use the problem below as a model. The problem I will
do is:
One thing we observe about this problem is that it is symmetrical
in x and y. That is we have the same two equations if we interchange
x and y. Therefore any time we get a pair of solutions for x, one will
be a solution for x and the other will be a solution for y.
Solve the second for y
Substitute in the first equation:
Multiply through by (x+2)², [but we know x can't be -2]
Get binomials in descending order:
Looking at the graph on a graphing calculator it appears that
it has solutions 2 and 5 but it probably has a pair of conjugate
complex solutions too. We use synthetic division with x=2
2 | 1 1 -6 -200 400
| 2 6 0 -400
1 3 0 -200 0
5 | 1 3 0 -200
| 5 40 200
1 8 40 0
So we have factored the polynomial as
So we have solutions x=2, x=5,
By the symmetry, we know that when x=2, y=5
and when x=5, y=2.
we get the other solutions from
using the quadratic formula, since it won't factor.
So the other pair of solutions, by symmetry, are
if , then
and
if , then
Now you do your problem exactly step-by step like I did this one.
Edwin