The owners of River View Bakery have hired enough servers to handle 17 tables of customers, and the fire marshal has approved the restaurant for a limit of 56 customers. The owners need to purchase two-seat and four-seat tables to accommodate the customers.
1. Write a system of equations to illustrate the situation. Use x for the two-seat tables and y for the four-seat tables.

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dumbcow · Answer

x+y = 17
2x + 4y = 56

dumbcow · Answer

use substitution or elimination to solve for x and y

anonymous · Answer

Well how would I do elimination?