Solution

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The parabola opens upward, with its minimum at and zeros at . The quartic graph is symmetric about the vertical axis, has its flat maximum at , and also has zeros at .
Their intersections solve , so the only real intersections are and . Between them, is the upper curve and the lower curve.
Figure 1.
The parabola, the inverted quartic, and the finite region between their intersections
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