Question

help

Answer 1

what do you think it is?

Answer 2

uhhh

Answer 3

Do you know how to solve a system of equations?

Do you know of the substitution method or elimination method?

Answer 4

all i know is you have to plug in the equation into the y value

Answer 5

Yes, you can do that! What would you get if you plug in the first equation into the second

Answer 6

2(-4x+5)

Answer 7

that's a good start but don't forget the rest of the equation

2(-4x+5) + 8x = 2

Answer 8

can you distribute the 2 inside the parenthesis?

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

-8x+10+8x=2

Answer 11

yes

Answer 12

oh so then you add the x values?

Answer 13

Yes, add the x-values

Answer 14

what happens when you do that?

Answer 15

you would get

Answer 16

0

Answer 17

0x+10=2

Answer 18

so 0x is the same thing as 0

so does 10 equal to 2?

Answer 19

no

Answer 20

i think i did it wrong

Answer 21

smart az.

Answer 22

No you didn't do it wrong!

Answer 23

so 10 does NOT equal to 2

Answer 24

OH wAIt

Answer 25

what this tells us is that there is no solution

Answer 26

so no solution

Answer 27

yay

Answer 28

Lmao righttt I’m just here looking at his work

Answer 29

Exactly!

Answer 30

If you graphed the equations, you would see that they're parallel lines

so they're never going to intersect and give you a solution

Answer 31

anybody neeed help

Answer 32

thank youuuuu

Answer 33

Good job az

Answer 34

yes, very good job you saved the day once again.

Answer 35

You're welcome!