Flashback Fridays: Practice B
1. Select all of the systems of equations that have exactly 1 solution.
{
y =2 x −4
A. −1
y= x−4
2
B. { y=x−6
y=x +6
C. {
2x+4 y ¿6
x +2 y ¿ 3
D. {
y=2 x +3
y=3−2 x
E. {
x− y=3
x− y=6
2. Select all of the equations that are equivalent to 2−x =6 x+12.
A. 2=5 x +12
B. 2+ x=8 x +12
C. 1−x=3 x +1 2
D. 2−x =3 (2 x +4 )
E. - x=6 x+10
3. Which system of equations has a solution of ( - 2 , 6 )?
A. { y=2 x+ 10
y =3 x−6
B. {
y−2 x=2
y +2 x =10
C. {
x− y=9
y=x +9
D. {-x4+2x−y=10
y=2
4. Solve this equation. Explain or show your reasoning.
1 1
x +2= ( 2 x−12 )
3 2
{
1
x+6 y=12
5. Solve this system of equations. 2
y=x +15
6. Lin and Han have money in their school lunch accounts. Han starts with $100 in his
account. He spends $15 each week on lunches.
The amount of money in Lin’s lunch account is shown by the line in the graph.
a. Write an equation representing the amount of money in Han’s account after x
weeks.
b. After how many weeks will Han and Lin have the same amount of money in
their lunch accounts? Explain or show your reasoning.
7. At a basketball competition, players can join in 6-player games (“3 on 3”) or 2-
player games (“1 on 1”).
a. 50 people sign up for only 1 type of game with x representing the number of
6-player games and y representing the number of 2-player games.
Complete the table to show different combinations of games that could be
played.
number of 6-player games ( x ) number of 2-player games ( y
)
0 25
1
1
4
4
b. If the competition holds 13 total games and all 50 athletes participate, how
many 6-player games and how many 2-player games are played?
2021, #10
Which system of equations has no solution?
A. {63x+x +48 y=10
y=5
B. {
7 x −2 y =9
7 x−2 y=13
C. {
2 x− y=−11
−2 x+ y=11
D. {
3 x +6 y =1
x + y =0
2023, #43
What value of x makes the equation shown below true?
24 x +33=3 (5 x +21 )−9
Show your work.
