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4 large pitchers and 1 small pitcher hold a total of 208 ounces. 2 large pitchers and 2 small pitchers hold a total of 128 ounces. How many ounces does a small pitcher hold?


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Okay sy mash members that's a hot summer day we've

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got a lot of lemonade being poured here Just read

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the questions for large pictures and one small picture Hold

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a total of two hundred eight ounces to large pitchers

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and two small pictures hold a total of one hundred

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twenty eight ounces How many ounces does a small picture

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hold What All right Well let's just use big l

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to represent the capacity of a large picture and big

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ass to represent capacity of a small picture problem tells

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us that for l plus esses to await and too

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well Plus two esses won twenty eight that's the big

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equation If you got that right Probably going to get

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this question right If you guess that we need to

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solve this system of equations for asked Well then you

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guessed right That's what we're doing here So what do

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we do We first isolate eldin the second equation We

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chose this equation because it lets us isolate l without

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ending up with any fractions Right So subtract two ass

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from both sides and we get to well is one

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twenty eight months to s and just divide both sides

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by two And we get tau ellis sixty four minus

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s what Plug it in for ellen The first equation

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We get four times quantity sixty four minus ass right

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there plus s all that equals to await Distribute on

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the left side of an combined like term So gives

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us this whole mess here Two Fifty six minus for

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us Plus asked and that's just two fifty six minus

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three Yes or is that too Oh eight subtract two

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fifty six from both sides and we get negative Three

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yeses too late minus two fifty six or negative forty

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eight and then finally divide both sides by negative three

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To find that ass are small picture here is sixteen

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or a set of different way of small picture Hold

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sixteen ounces It's basically one big gulf force one the 00:01:42.147 --> [endTime] old man's bladder where's the restaurant

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