Bradley is planning to publish a cookbook. He consults with the author, and they decide to include 150 recipes, with one on each page. They also decide to divide the book into three sections: vegetarian dishes, meat dishes, and desserts.

Hi richellerichy in the house and um idk the answer sorry x.x

So the first thing we do is to multiply the top equation by 3. the reason i want to do this is i notice there will be a 6y on both equations and can possibly add/subtract them. so we get 6y = -3x + 27. adding that and the second equation we get 6x = 27-15 which is 12. divide by 6 and we get 2. ∴ x = 2. substituting 2 into the first equation we get 2y = -2 + 9 which is 7. divide by 2 and we get 7/2. ∴ y = 7/2, x = 2.