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This question can be answered by the elimination method, substitution method or graphically. I find the elimination method easiest, especially when you can see that the coefficient of a variable (in this ...

First of all, you want to get all your data in the same units, so either in pounds or kg. Here, as you are told that 1kg = 2.2 pounds, it seems easier to convert the amount of potatoes from 30kg into poun...

Method 1 (Elimination) -

You can see that If you add the 2 equations together you can eliminate the y variable like so 6x=12, then if you divide both sides by 6 you get x=2. Then if you place x=2 b...

1/5 of the days.

In this algebraic problem, we are faced with two unknowns (x's) on both sides of the equation. Remember that what we do to one side, we must also do to the other side. So to tackle this, we will first foc...