document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=608624>Question 608624</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Solve for x and y: <BR>\n" );
document.write( "2x + y= 3<BR>\n" );
document.write( "X^2 + y= 5 <BR>\n" );
document.write( " Can you please take me step by step? Im really having trouble with this. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "I'm going to presume that you made a typo and that you really mean:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 2x\ +\ y\ =\ 3\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ x^2\ +\ y\ =\ 5\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "because the way you wrote it, since <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE x\"> and <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE X\"> are NOT the same thing, you have an underdetermined system of two equations in three variables.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Solve the first equation for <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE y\"> in terms of everything else.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ y\ =\ -2x\ +\ 3\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Do the same thing for the second equation\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ y\ =\ -x^2\ +\ 5\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Now that you have two things equal to <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE y\"> set them equal to each other:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ -x^2\ +\ 5\ =\ -2x\ +\ 3\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Put the quadratic into standard form and solve for <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE x\">.  Then use the value of <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE x\"> to calculate <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE y\"> by substituting back into one of the original equations.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "John<BR>\n" );
document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi}\ +\ 1\ =\ 0\"><BR>\n" );
document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it<BR>\n" );
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