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2x+3y=10
Consider the first equation. Add 10 to both sides. Anything plus zero gives itself.
4x-3y=20
Consider the second equation. Subtract 3y from both sides.
2x+3y=10,4x-3y=20
To solve a pair of equations using substitution, first solve one of the equations for one of the variables. Then substitute the result for that variable in the other equation.
2x+3y=10
Choose one of the equations and solve it for x by isolating x on the left hand side of the equal sign.
2x=-3y+10
Subtract 3y from both sides of the equation.
x=\frac{1}{2}\left(-3y+10\right)
Divide both sides by 2.
x=-\frac{3}{2}y+5
Multiply \frac{1}{2} times -3y+10.
4\left(-\frac{3}{2}y+5\right)-3y=20
Substitute -\frac{3y}{2}+5 for x in the other equation, 4x-3y=20.
-6y+20-3y=20
Multiply 4 times -\frac{3y}{2}+5.
-9y+20=20
Add -6y to -3y.
-9y=0
Subtract 20 from both sides of the equation.
y=0
Divide both sides by -9.
x=5
Substitute 0 for y in x=-\frac{3}{2}y+5. Because the resulting equation contains only one variable, you can solve for x directly.
x=5,y=0
The system is now solved.
2x+3y=10
Consider the first equation. Add 10 to both sides. Anything plus zero gives itself.
4x-3y=20
Consider the second equation. Subtract 3y from both sides.
2x+3y=10,4x-3y=20
Put the equations in standard form and then use matrices to solve the system of equations.
\left(\begin{matrix}2&3\\4&-3\end{matrix}\right)\left(\begin{matrix}x\\y\end{matrix}\right)=\left(\begin{matrix}10\\20\end{matrix}\right)
Write the equations in matrix form.
inverse(\left(\begin{matrix}2&3\\4&-3\end{matrix}\right))\left(\begin{matrix}2&3\\4&-3\end{matrix}\right)\left(\begin{matrix}x\\y\end{matrix}\right)=inverse(\left(\begin{matrix}2&3\\4&-3\end{matrix}\right))\left(\begin{matrix}10\\20\end{matrix}\right)
Left multiply the equation by the inverse matrix of \left(\begin{matrix}2&3\\4&-3\end{matrix}\right).
\left(\begin{matrix}1&0\\0&1\end{matrix}\right)\left(\begin{matrix}x\\y\end{matrix}\right)=inverse(\left(\begin{matrix}2&3\\4&-3\end{matrix}\right))\left(\begin{matrix}10\\20\end{matrix}\right)
The product of a matrix and its inverse is the identity matrix.
\left(\begin{matrix}x\\y\end{matrix}\right)=inverse(\left(\begin{matrix}2&3\\4&-3\end{matrix}\right))\left(\begin{matrix}10\\20\end{matrix}\right)
Multiply the matrices on the left hand side of the equal sign.
\left(\begin{matrix}x\\y\end{matrix}\right)=\left(\begin{matrix}-\frac{3}{2\left(-3\right)-3\times 4}&-\frac{3}{2\left(-3\right)-3\times 4}\\-\frac{4}{2\left(-3\right)-3\times 4}&\frac{2}{2\left(-3\right)-3\times 4}\end{matrix}\right)\left(\begin{matrix}10\\20\end{matrix}\right)
For the 2\times 2 matrix \left(\begin{matrix}a&b\\c&d\end{matrix}\right), the inverse matrix is \left(\begin{matrix}\frac{d}{ad-bc}&\frac{-b}{ad-bc}\\\frac{-c}{ad-bc}&\frac{a}{ad-bc}\end{matrix}\right), so the matrix equation can be rewritten as a matrix multiplication problem.
\left(\begin{matrix}x\\y\end{matrix}\right)=\left(\begin{matrix}\frac{1}{6}&\frac{1}{6}\\\frac{2}{9}&-\frac{1}{9}\end{matrix}\right)\left(\begin{matrix}10\\20\end{matrix}\right)
Do the arithmetic.
\left(\begin{matrix}x\\y\end{matrix}\right)=\left(\begin{matrix}\frac{1}{6}\times 10+\frac{1}{6}\times 20\\\frac{2}{9}\times 10-\frac{1}{9}\times 20\end{matrix}\right)
Multiply the matrices.
\left(\begin{matrix}x\\y\end{matrix}\right)=\left(\begin{matrix}5\\0\end{matrix}\right)
Do the arithmetic.
x=5,y=0
Extract the matrix elements x and y.
2x+3y=10
Consider the first equation. Add 10 to both sides. Anything plus zero gives itself.
4x-3y=20
Consider the second equation. Subtract 3y from both sides.
2x+3y=10,4x-3y=20
In order to solve by elimination, coefficients of one of the variables must be the same in both equations so that the variable will cancel out when one equation is subtracted from the other.
4\times 2x+4\times 3y=4\times 10,2\times 4x+2\left(-3\right)y=2\times 20
To make 2x and 4x equal, multiply all terms on each side of the first equation by 4 and all terms on each side of the second by 2.
8x+12y=40,8x-6y=40
Simplify.
8x-8x+12y+6y=40-40
Subtract 8x-6y=40 from 8x+12y=40 by subtracting like terms on each side of the equal sign.
12y+6y=40-40
Add 8x to -8x. Terms 8x and -8x cancel out, leaving an equation with only one variable that can be solved.
18y=40-40
Add 12y to 6y.
18y=0
Add 40 to -40.
y=0
Divide both sides by 18.
4x=20
Substitute 0 for y in 4x-3y=20. Because the resulting equation contains only one variable, you can solve for x directly.
x=5
Divide both sides by 4.
x=5,y=0
The system is now solved.