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.

What will be an ideal response?


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

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