SOLUTION: Hello, can you please help me with this question? It has two parts (a and b). Thank you in advance for any help you can offer! a) Solve by graphing: y= x+4 y= -2x+1 b) Tel

Algebra ->  Graphs -> SOLUTION: Hello, can you please help me with this question? It has two parts (a and b). Thank you in advance for any help you can offer! a) Solve by graphing: y= x+4 y= -2x+1 b) Tel      Log On


   



Question 276136: Hello, can you please help me with this question? It has two parts (a and b). Thank you in advance for any help you can offer!
a) Solve by graphing:
y= x+4
y= -2x+1
b) Tell what you can about the solution.

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A graph of a straight line is an infinite number of ordered pairs such that the coordinates of each ordered pair satisfies the equation. When, as in this case, two lines intersect in a single point, that single point has the characteristic that its coordinates satisfy BOTH equations simultaneously. Therefore, that single point is the single element in the solution set of the SYSTEM of equations.

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