570 470 %. 2 2 $ 3 5 5 3
40 90

Henry Rich

Björn Helgason wrote:
> I was helping my little daughter with algebra and one of the problems was to
> figure out x and y from following
> 
> 3x+5y=570
> 5x+3y=470
> 
> Actually x was apples and y bananas
> 
> Anyway I am thinking is there a way to stick this here above into J to
> figure out x and why?
> 
> The solution is straight forward enough
> 
> 2y=100+2x
> y=50+x
> 5x+150+3x=470
> 8x=320
> x=40
> y=90
> 
> But how to do it in J
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