Your pet rat Randy is the next contestant on a new game show What a Rat! where rats compete in mazes to find food as fast as possible. Randy is equally likely to take any path when coming to an intersection, but you get to decide which area to place the food. Given the maze at right, in which area should you place the food to help Randy win the competition? Show all of your calculations! Be clear, complete and justify your answer.

I should place the food in the finish line so Randy can eat it and pass the line.

step-by-step explanation:

if you meant, "on the way from (3, 2) to (3, 14):

x does not change; y increases by 12.

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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.