Question

Two numbers have a difference of 7 and a sum of -11. What are the values of x and y as an ordered pair?

Answer 1

@SnOwFlAkE0531

Answer 2

@az

Answer 3

@sUpiE

Answer 4

@hOoDmEmEs

Answer 5

@SxDsOuLs e.e

Answer 6

why not? ;c

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

idk this-

Answer 10

@supie ??

Answer 11

@bOrEdFr ;c

Answer 12

@sUpIe plz ;c

Answer 13

How would you write it as an equation?

The sum of two numbers is -11

The difference is 7

What would your two equations be?

Answer 14

idk- my mind is going blank today.......

Answer 15

Call one number 'x' and the other 'y'

what does sum mean?

Is that adding two numbers or subtracting or multiplying or dividing?

Answer 16

it's adding ;-;

Answer 17

Exactly, so the sum of the two numbers is -11

so

x + y = -11

right?

Answer 18

yes yes umm -12 + 1 = -11 but it doesn't have a difference of 7

Answer 19

i'm so confused-

Answer 20

yes, so we need to come up with the second equation so that way we can solve it

what does difference mean?

subtraction? division? multiplication?

Answer 21

subtract

Answer 22

exactly, so your second equation is

x - y = 7

so we have two equations

x + y = -11
x - y = 7

Do you know how to solve a system of equations?

Answer 23

ye.. i think 0-0

Answer 24

What do you get for 'x' and 'y' when you solve it?

Answer 25

OooHh i got ittt

Answer 26

so for x i got -2?
and y = -9??

Answer 27

That is correct