A certain student has taken 74 credit hours so far in college. The equation 14x + 16y= 74 represents this situation, where x is the number of fall semesters and y is the number of spring
semesters in which the student has taken classes. How many more credit hours did the student take
in each spring semester than in each fall semester?

2 credit hours

Explanation:

Given

14x + 16y = 74

Required

Determine the number of credit hours y greater than x

From the question, we understand that

y => spring semesters

x => fall semesters

From the equation,

14 represent the number of credit hours in each fall semester

16 represent the number of credit hours in each spring semester

Calculate the difference.

Difference = 16 hours - 14 hours

Difference = 2 hours

Hence, the student take 2 more hours in each spring semester than in each fall semester