PLEASE HELP!! Solve for x and y 1/3x-2=1/3x+3
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Lets say that the two unknown integers are 
and 
.
We know the following things about and :
And, we want to find
.
To solve this, we'll use the expansion of the squared of the sum of any two inegers; this is expressed as:
So, given what we know about the unknown integers, the previous can be written as:
We can easily solve for:
The answer is 168.
Another approach to solve the problem is, from the two starting equations, compute the values of and , which are 12 and 14, and directly compute their product; however, the approach described is more elegant.
We know the following things about
And, we want to find
To solve this, we'll use the expansion of the squared of the sum of any two inegers; this is expressed as:
So, given what we know about the unknown integers, the previous can be written as:
We can easily solve for
The answer is 168.
Another approach to solve the problem is, from the two starting equations, compute the values of
A circle with center and radius
has equation
If we substitute in this equation, we have
This equation has two solutions (i.e. the line intersects the circle in two points) if and only if the determinant is greater than zero:
The expression simplifies to
The solutions to the associated equation are
So, the parabola is negative between the two solutions: