Abat and a ball cost one dollar and ten cents in total. the bat costs a dollar more than the ball. how much does the ball cost?

$ and  cents is the cost of both the bat and the ball... if the bat is  more than the ball the bat cost  and the ball costs  cents... you can do that by multiplying  ×. The value  is how much cents there are. Next highlight  cents. finally do × .  is another way for cents... It equals . is indeed greater than . so is the answer

Ok here we go ..there are plenty of ways to solve such math problems but we will go for the smartest and easiest ..5x+2y=7  -2x+6y=9we rearrange them into the following ..by multiplying the 1st equation by 2 it becomes 10x + 4y = 14we rearrange it and so it becomes 10x = 14 - 4yas for the second equation we multiply it by 5 and rearrange it so it becomes as to the following ..-10x + 30y = 45rearranging so 10x = 30y -45now 10x equals both 14 - 4y and 30y -45so   14 - 4y = 30y -4531 = 26yy= 31/26 = 1.19 or around 1.2so by now we can calculate x easily as  -2x+6y=9so 2x = 6y -9 = 6 * 31/26 - 9 = -1.84  then x = - 0.92 or around -0.9best luck!