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?+?=8 

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?-?=6

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 Sep 4, 2016
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Is it like that?

 

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 Sep 4, 2016
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We can rewrite the problem as:

 x + y = 8

 z - x = 6

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 13  8

 

This gives us 3 unique linear equations:

x + y = 8 (and also y + x = 8 vertically but that's the same thing)

z - x = 6

x + z = 13

 

Rewriting the second equation as -x + z = 6 we can solve for z by adding the two equations:

x + z = 13

-x + z = 6

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2z = 19

 

Thus z = 9.5. Substituting for z in the equations above gives us x = 3.5 which then gives us y = 4.5, therefore:

 

3.5 + 4.5 = 8

9.5 - 3.5 = 6

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 Sep 4, 2016

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