Question

Item 8 question 1 you and your friend are selling raffle tickets for a new laptop. you sell 14 more tickets than your friend sells. together, you and your friend sell 58 tickets.
a. write a system of linear equations that represents this situation. let xx represent the number of tickets you sell and yy represent the number of tickets your friend sells.

Answer 1

You sell 36 and your friend sells 22. 

If you want to solve using a system you can use this. 

x + y = 58
x - y = 14