Given a Vector addition and subtraction, how to find the Vector.

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Homework Statement


Given the following Vectors: A+B= x1i + y1j and A-B= x2i + y2j
what is A? and what is B?

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I wasn't really sure how to go about this problem. I tried setting one side to A and pluging it into the other eqn A.. however that made no sense to me.
 
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