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What we’re going to do is we’re going to go ahead and multiply the top equation by three so that we will get positive 3y and then this times three we’re multiplying everything times three. Tou can pick and choose if you want to do X or if you want to cancel Y but in this case I’m going to cancel Y. The positive 3y and the negative 3y would cancel when we add we could also multiply by negative two because if we multiply by negative two we could add the x’s and that negative two and the positive 2x would cancel. Our first equation can be multiplied that when we add these they will cancel now the easiest thing to multiply the top equation by would be 3 because if we multiplied everything by 3 we would get 3y and then the Y’s would cancel. Nothing cancelled so that means we can’t do this, we have to multiply one or both equations so that we get a situation where when we add vertically something will cancel.
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If we added these right now for instance X plus 2 X would be 3 X and then Y minus 3 y would be negative 2y and then 4 plus 18 would be 22. When we go to eliminate these you will notice that if we were to add these straight up or down nothing would cancel. We have X plus y equals 4 and then 2x minus 3y equals 18. The next problem on our solving systems of equations by elimination worksheet is number two. We know that our solution is the coordinate 9, 20 and that’s going to be our answer. We know our x coordinate and we know our Y is now 20. We divide both sides by negative 1, these cancel and you have positive y equals positive 20. We’re going to go ahead and subtract 27 from this side subtract 27 from this side these cancel you have negative y equals 7 minus 27 is negative 20 and then we have to get rid of this negative. So now we know X is equal to nine but we have to find y because we have to know the X and the y coordinate for this solution of this system we took our X which was nine and we substituted in for X then we’re going to simplify this. Now we have 3 times 9 which is what we substituted in 4 minus y equals 7. This 9 because X is equal to 9 can get substituted in for X. In this case we’re going to take this 9 and we’re going to substitute it in back into our first equation. Now we know that x equals 9 we can take x equals 9 and we can substitute x equals 9 back into one of our equations. It is now gone and we are left with 1x or just x equals 9. In other words what has happened is we have taken Y because we have 0y now and we have canceled it out.

This is negative 1 y plus 1 Y would be 0 Y and then 7 plus 2 is 9. We can look at our equations and we can see that if we were to add these straight down the Y’s would cancel so what would happen is you would do 3x plus negative 2x would be 1x or 3x minus 2x would be 1x and then negative y plus 1y.

Now it does not matter if you cancel out the X or the Y but at least one of them must cancel. In the case of solving systems by using the elimination method you have to visualize how you couldn’t add these vertically to see what terms or variables will cancel. When you do the elimination method to solve systems of equations you’re going to add each part of your equation vertically so that one or more of the terms will cancel. The first equation is 3x minus y equals 7 and the second equation is negative 2x plus y equals 2. This problem gives us two separate equations in our system. Here’s number one on our solving systems of equations by elimination worksheet.
#Solving equation systems by elimination worksheets for free#
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