A contractor needs to buy nails to build a house. The nails come in small boxes and large boxes. Each small box has 200 nails and each large box has
400 nails. The contractor bought twice as many small boxes as large boxes,
which altogether had 3200 nails. Graphically solve a system of equations in
order to determine the number of small boxes purchased, x, and the number
of large boxes purchased, y.
y Click twice to plot each line. Click a line to delete it.
20
19
18
17