Question

How do you solve x + 3y = 24 and 2x + 6y= 48?

Answer 1

You can't solve it.

Explanation:

In order to solve systems of equations in two variables, one of the equations cannot be the factor of the other. In the equations you gave, `2x+6y=48` is the double of `x+3y=24`. So we'd know `x+3y=48` even if the only equation we knew was `2x+6y=48`, because that's what you get when you divide it by `2`.

While solving a simultenaous set of two linear equations, you need distinct equations.