SOLUTION: there are 34 students in mrs henrys class if there are eight more boys than girls in the class, how many girls are in the class? can you also do the matrices equation for this qu

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Question 373499: there are 34 students in mrs henrys class if there are eight more boys than girls in the class, how many girls are in the class?
can you also do the matrices equation for this question?
Answer by edjones(8007) About Me  (Show Source):
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b=g+8
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b-g=8
b+g=34
-------add
2b=42
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b=21
g=13
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Ed