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Systems of Equations - Elimination

Authored by Matthew Weightman

Mathematics

9th - 12th Grade

CCSS covered

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1.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

10 mins • 1 pt

What is your lunch number?

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 mins • 1 pt

Solve by elimination:
7x + y = -9
-3x - y = 5

No solution
(1,8)
(-2,-3)
(-1,-2)

Tags

CCSS.8.EE.C.8B

CCSS.HSA.REI.C.6

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 mins • 1 pt

Which variable will be "eliminated" by adding the equations together?

-2x -3y = 11

2x - 3y = -14

x

y

Both

None

Tags

CCSS.8.EE.C.8B

CCSS.HSA.REI.C.6

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 mins • 1 pt

Solve using elimination. 
 4x + 8y = 20
-4x + 2y = -30

(-7,1)

Infinite Many Solutions

(-2,5)
(7,-1)

Tags

CCSS.8.EE.C.8B

CCSS.HSA.REI.C.6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 mins • 1 pt

−4x − 4y = 0
4x + 4y = 0 

(−6, −4) 

Infinite Many Solutions  

(−6, 10) 
(6, 4) 

Tags

CCSS.8.EE.C.8B

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 mins • 1 pt

Add the x terms in the two equations and the y terms in the two equations so you get 3x + 8y = 11

Multiply all terms in the top equation by 9 because the second equation ends with a 9.

Isolate a variable in the first equation and substitute.

Multiply all terms in the top equation
by 2 so that the
x-coefficients match.

Tags

CCSS.8.EE.C.8B

CCSS.HSA.REI.C.6

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 mins • 1 pt

How many solutions does the following system have?

-9x - 3y = -10

36x + 12y = 0

No Solution

One

Infinitely many

Two

Tags

CCSS.8.EE.C.8B

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