Nacirema

Did you do something wrong with the original question?

If you still think you're right, here:

You are the first one to notice that!

Some people had to take a wild guess if I was American or not.

I honestly can NEVER spell it right. 🤦‍♂️

Dooooobleeeee Poooossssstttttt:

I think the latex screwed up there. I don't think you intended that to happen. But at least I can use latex normally now.

So let shoes be $s$ and hats be $h$. 

Eric: $2s+3h=175$

Jaden: $4s+1h=225$

Solve the system of equations.

We can set them similar to each other by multiplying Eric's by 2 and subtracting all of Jaden's from it.

$2\cdot(2s+3h=175)\\\implies4s+6h=350$

Cancel like terms:

4s+6h=350

-4s+1h=225

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5h=75

Now we have 5 hats are 75 dollars, so 1 hat is 15 Dollars.

Sub into the secone equation:

$4s+15=225$

$4s=210$

$s=52.5$

Thus a pair of shoes is 52.50 Dollars.

What is the question?

Double pooooosttttt:

What we want to do is to put them both into books read per day. 

Becky reads 10/4 books, if you do time/quantity, and similarly Sarah reads 50/20.

If we simplify both, 10/4 = 5/2 and by the same token 50/20 = 5/2. 

Thus the answer is YES.

Hi.

1. Rewrite the equation:

     \(-10x+2y=30\\\implies-5x+y=15\text { here we divided the entire equation by 2}\)

2. Slope intercept form is expressed as \(y=mx+b\) where m is the slope and b is the y intercept. Let's now finish up the equation and put the above into slope intercept form:

     \(-5x+y=15\\\text { add 5x to both sides}\\\implies y=15+5x\\\implies \boxed {y=5x+15}\\\text { the slope is 5 and the y-intercept is 15}\)

Ok, thanks! I get what it is now. I saw you composing an answer and all of a sudden it stopped. I had a feeling you either went AFK or there was a glitch.

Oh wait, is this what it is?

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