Jo and ellen are partners ina painting business. because no is an office manager, she is to receive one-third more than ellen when the profits are distributed. if their profit is $85,400, how much should each of them receive?

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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.