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hi there if you'd like me to take you through the different methods in detail it might be worth having a private session
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looks to me like this one will work best with the substitution method
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so if we re-arrange the first equation 3x +y = 7 to get y on its own we can subtract 3x from both sides to get:
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then we take the second equation and substitute this 7-3x in for the y that's already there to get:
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so now we know that
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and rearrange (because 6-7 = -1)
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now all we have to do is simplify:
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so for this becomes
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so all we have to do now is put the value of x=1 back into one of the original equations to find out what y is
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and subtracting 3 from each side we get
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