Is (989, 925) a solution to the equation y = x + -62?

Question

Its for an IXL Im doing.

If you can help me figure out how to get the answers to them all by showing my how to do them, that would be great

Answer 1

Hi Jake!

First, a person solving this needs to remember that an ordered pair is always denoted as (x,y), like our English alphabet ('x' first, 'y' second). Because of this, you're looking at an ordered pair of x being 989 and y being 925. If you plug in those given values into the equation, the right-hand side would be 989 + -62 or 989-62 which amounts to 917. Since 'y' is a value of 925, 925 does not equal 917. Therefore it is not balanced and is not a true statement, meaning that this given ordered pair is not a solution. I hope this is helpful, Jake. Let me know if you have any further questions.

Kind regards,

Don M.