Three hundred and sixty-eight (368) students of The UWI Global Campus are registered to do ECON1003. The ethnicity of the registered students is Black, East Indian and Latino. If there are four times as many East Indian students as there are twice as many Black students plus Latino students and thrice as many East Indian students as there are four hundred and ninetyone students minus twice as many Latino students.   a. State three variables to represent the events presented in the above information.                [1 mark]  b. Write three linear equations to represent the above information.    [2 marks]  c. Using your answer from part b. above, write the linear equations in matrix form.            [2 marks]

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 Three hundred and sixty-eight (368) students of The UWI Global Campus are registered to do 
ECON1003. The ethnicity of the registered students is Black, East Indian and Latino. If there 
are four times as many East Indian students as there are twice as many Black students plus 
Latino students and thrice as many East Indian students as there are four hundred and ninety
one students minus twice as many Latino students.  
 
a. State three variables to represent the events presented in the above information. 
               [1 mark] 
 
b. Write three linear equations to represent the above information.    [2 marks] 
 
c. Using your answer from part b. above, write the linear equations in matrix form.  
          [2 marks] 

 

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