Thursday, 14 August 2014

The cost of a notebook is twice the cost of a pen. Write a linear equation in two variables to represent this statement.

The cost of a notebook is twice the cost of a pen. Write a linear equation in two variables to represent this statement.
(Take the cost of a notebook to be Rs x and that of a pen to be Rs y.) 
Answer:
Let the cost of a notebook and a pen be x and y respectively.
Cost of notebook = 2 × Cost of pen
x = 2y
x − 2y = 0

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