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True or False: A system of two equations in two variables whose graphs are a parabola and a circle can have four real ordered-pair solutions.

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Answer: True

The parabola can intersect the circle four times as the graph shows below. Each intersection point is a solution in the form (x,y).

True or False: A system of two equations in two variables whose graphs are a parabola-example-1
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