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What are the solutions of the system?
{y=2x+6
y=x^2+5x+6

User Areli
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If you were to graph these 2 functions, you would see that they intersect at the following points. (-3,0) and (0,6) so these would be your solutions

You could also solve this algebraically using substitution:
2x + 6 = x² + 5x + 6
0 = x² + 5x + 6 - 2x - 6
0 = x² + 3x
0 = x(x + 3) which implies x = 0 and x = -3 you can now plug these values in for x in the linear function to find the corresponding y coordinates.

Hope this helps
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