SOLUTION: how do you come up with the answer to this equation x-y=5 and x=2y+1

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Question 597371: how do you come up with the answer to this equation x-y=5 and x=2y+1
Answer by solver91311(24713)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


That is not AN equation. It is a system of equations. There are at least 4 ways to solve it: Substitution, Elimination, Gauss-Jordan Row Reduction, and Cramer's Rule. I'm not going to do all of them for you, so you have to tell us what you want.

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