One of the highest snowfall rates ever recorded was silver lake colorado in april 1921 when just over 7 feet of snow fell in 27 1/2 hours. what was the rate in inches per hours

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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.