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Solve the system of equations using the elimination method.
The solution is the point
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To start, we want to see whether it will be easier to eliminate or We see that the coefficients of in each equation are and and the coefficients of are and Because is a multiple of and the coefficients already have opposite signs, the variable will be easier to eliminate.
To eliminate the terms, we will multiply each side of the second equation by so that we will have We can call this process scaling the second equation by
Which gives us
We now have an equivalent system of equations where the -terms can be eliminated:
So we have:
To solve for we will substitute for into either of the original equations or the new one. We will use the original first equation,
Our solution is and or the point The checking step is left up to the reader.