Question

There are 10 people at a meeting, some men and some women. The total number of men is 2 more than the number of women. How many men and women are at the party? In order to graph, let the number of men be x and the number of women be y.

Answer 1

4women 6men

Answer 2

I need this in slope intercept form so that I may graph it.

Answer 3

Say x is women, y is men
x+y=10
y=x+2
plug in the the second equation into the first to get x+(x+2)=10 then solve for x.
Use this value of x to solve for y in the second equation

Answer 4

I'm sorry to be so slow at this but I'm still not understanding what to do with these equations.

Answer 5

x is number of man, y number of woman, number of man is 2> number of woman that's mean x=y+2, then you have x+y=10=>( y+2)+y=10=> 2y+2=10 or 2y=8 so y=4, x=y+2 then x=6

Answer 6

for the first you have to make 2 equations the first x+y=10 and x=y+2
than it's all simple :)

Answer 7

Men = x.
Women = y.
The total number of people (10) = women (y) + men (x)
10 = y + x.

Because there are two more men than there are women, y (women) = x (men) - 2.
So your two equations are
y + x = 10 and
y = x - 2.
Because you know the equation for y (x - 2) you can substitute that in for y in the first equation (y + x = 10). The equation you would end up with is this:
(x - 2) + x = 10.
2x - 2 = 10.
2x = 12.
x = 6.
You can then plug that in for x in the first equation, in order to find y.
y + x = 10.
y + 6 = 10.
y = 4.

Answer 8

Thank You All So Very Much!

Answer 9

u r welcome ^_^