The surface area of the cone is 43.75pie cm^2. what is the slant height of the cone and the diameter is 5

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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.