An outdoor swimming race is 1.6 miles long. Simon swims 8 tenths of the course, and his friend Sheila swims 9 tenths of the course. How much farther did Sheila swim?

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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.