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How do solve the following linear system?: $-x - y = 8 , x - 3y = 8$ ?

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Jun 17, 2018

$x=-4,y=-4$

Explanation:

Adding both equations we get
$-4y=16$

so $y=-4$
from here we get
$x=-4$

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