Can you help me with this please

Can someone explain the elimination method to me for this problem?

You are cycling around europe with friends. you book into a hostel and you ask the owner what the ratio of men to women is currently staying there. there are 24 men and 6 women. what is the ratio of men to women in its simplest form?

Heather is writing a quadratic function that represents a parabola that touches but does not cross the x-axis at x = -6. which function could heather be writing? fx) = x2 + 36x + 12 = x2 - 36x - 12 f(x) = -x + 12x + 36 f(x) = -x? - 12x - 36