Symbolically

To find where two functions intersect, you can set them equal to each other and solve the resulting equation:

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Or, if you prefer to see decimal approximations:

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Actually, a much cooler way to solve this problem in Mathematica would be to simply call the functions by name:

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Converted by Mathematica      May 12, 2003