This applet investigates how to solve equations by seeing where a straight line intersects a circle.
Instructions below
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Look at the initial position of the circle and the straight line on the graph. You can see that they cross in two places. What are the coordinates of the points where they cross, and how does that tie in with the solution of the two simultaneous equations at the right of the screen? |
They can be solved by substituting for x or y and then solving a quadratic equation. |