A scuba diver starts at 85 3/4 meters below the surface of the water and descends until he reaches 103 1/5 meters below sea level. How many meters did he descend?
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From his starting point of 85 3/4, he descended 17 9/20 meters

Step-by-step explanation:

We want to know how much farther he went down from his starting point.

103 1/5 - 85 3/4

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tart off by making the denominators of both the numbers the same.

103 1/5 - 85 3/4

103 4/20 - 85 15/20

Make them into improper fractions

2064/20 - 1715/20 = 349/20

Make 349/20 into a mixed fraction

17 9/20

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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.