SOLUTION: What is solution to this system of equations? 2x+4y=2/3 3x-5y=-10

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Question 52440: What is solution to this system of equations?
2x+4y=2/3
3x-5y=-10

Answer by AnlytcPhil(1806) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!

What is solution to this system of equations? 
2x + 4y = 2/3 
3x - 5y = -10 

Maybe we can make it into a system that you
already know how to find the solution to.

Clear the first one of its fraction by
multiplying it thru by the LCD of 3. 

(3)·2x + (3)·4y = (3)·2/3

   6x  +   12y  = (3)·2/3

   6x  +   12y  =    2

Now you have this system with no fractions

6x + 12y =   2
3x -  5y = -10

Can you solve that system by elimination?
If not post again and ask how to solve it.
Its solution is this:  (x,y) = (-5/3, 1)

Edwin