Lydia bought a shirt at 20% off its retail price of 40 dollars she payed 5% tax after the discount how much did lydia pay for the shirt

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graphically?   well, you graph them both, the solutions is where they both intersect each other, since there are two solutions, meaning they will meet twice, or namely the linear will run into the quadratic curve twice, and where they meet, those x,y coordinates are the solutions to the system.