document.write( "Question 225309: Could you please walk me through the steps writing the linear system into a matrix equation. x+y=5 , 3x-4y=8 \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #168143 by jsmallt9(3758)\"\" \"About 
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  1. Get the equations into \"standard\" form: Ax + By = C. Your first equation is already in this form. All we need to do with the second is to rewrite it as an addition:
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  2. Then just write the numbers into a matrix, leaving out all the \"punctuation\" (addition, =, parentheses, etc.):
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document.write( "+-            -+\r\n" );
document.write( "|  1   1   5   |\r\n" );
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document.write( "|  3  -4   8   |\r\n" );
document.write( "+-            -+\r\n" );
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    \n" ); document.write( "(I apologize for the crude matrix \"corners\".)

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