Provide an appropriate response.Write a system of equations that would be more easily solved using the elimination method than the substitution method. Explain why elimination would be easier than substitution.

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 5x + 3y = -1,
 3x + 4y = 6
Elimination would be easier to use than the substitution method, because it does not require calculations involving fractions.

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