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Math Scavenger Hunt

Solving Systems of Equations: Graphically

Directions: In the last lecture, you learned how to solve systems of equations algebraically:
through the substitution and elimination methods. Today, you will be learning how to solve
them through the final method: graphing. Instead of a lecture, you will instead be using online
resources to figure out this final method. Enter your answers directly in the document. Once
you complete it, print it out and keep it for your notes.

Steps:
1. Head on over to Khan Academy - Graphing Method and read through the explanation of the
graphing method.
2. Fill in the blanks.
Systems of equations with graphing
We can find the solution to a system of equations by ___________ the equations.

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First, lets graph the _______ equation = 2 + 3. Notice that the equation is already in
______________ form so we can graph it by starting at the _______________ of 3, and then
going up 1 and to the right 2 from there.

Next, lets graph the _________ equation = + 1 as well.

There is exactly _______ point where the graphs ___________. This is the _________ to the
system of equations.
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This makes sense because every point on the gold line is a solution to the equation = 2 + 3,
and every point on the green line is a solution to = + 1. So, the only point thats a
____________ to ________ equations is the point of intersection.
Checking the solution
So, from ___________ the two equations, we found the ordered ________ (4,5) is the
__________ to the system. Lets ________ this by plugging = 4 and = 5 into each
equation.

The first equation:

The second equation:

3. Complete the 3 practice and 4 challenge problems on the page.

4. List your answers below.
Practice Problems
1. = ; =
2. = ; =
3. = ; =
Challenge Problems
1. 3.
2. 4.
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5. Head over to Quia to complete an interactive game. There are 8 questions. Please state
below how many coins you collected out of 8.

____ out of the 8 coins collected

6. Critically think about why there can only be one solution to a system of equations. Explain
your thoughts below.

7. Head over to Desmos to find the solutions to the following problems using ONLY the
graphing method. (Do not do any work for these problems. Simply plug the equations into
this online calculator and find the solution to the systems of equations.)
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1. = 5 + 12 and = 3 + 7
Solution ( , )

1 3
2. = 9 6 and = 4
Solution ( , )
8. Explain why you think its important that we learned this third method of solving systems of
equations.

9. Now that youve learned all three methods of solving systems of equations, choose the one
you like the most and explain why.

10. Highlight your number of understanding on solving systems of equations using the graphing
method. (1 = low understanding; 10 = completely understand) (Ex. .8 9 10)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Source:
Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-eighth-grade-math/cc-8th-
systems-topic/cc-8th-systems-graphically/a/systems-of-equations-with-graphing