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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "In the first place,

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, so, as written, your problem cannot be solved. However, presuming you simply made a typo and you really meant:\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Collect like terms, put the quadratic into standard form (

), and then calculate the discriminant. If the discriminant is positive, you have two solutions and two points of intersection. In this case, calculate the roots, and substitute each of them back into either of the original equations to find the

-values so that you can specifiy the ordered pairs that represent the two points. If the discriminant is zero, there is only one point of intersection. If the discriminant is negative, then the two graphs do not intersect and the the solution set of the system is the empty set. \r
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