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Analyse how barrier to entry determine the degree of competition in the British transport market.

A barrier to entry is any complication or expense a firm might encounter when entering the transport market. There are many barriers to entry such as economies of scale being exploited by pre-existing fir...

Answered by Nicholas W. • Economics tutor

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What happens during eutrophication?

The addition of nutrients such as nitrate means that nutrients no longer limit plant growth.Algae begins to bloom which blocks out sunlight. As a result, plants cannot photosynthesise (or photosynthesis i...

Answered by Emily C. • Biology tutor

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Differentiate the function y = 26 + x - 4x³ -½x^(-4)

dy/dx = 1 - 12x² + 2x^(-5)

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Why does as an excess of nutrients such as nitrates lead to animal death in bodies of freshwater?

This is an unexpected result as usually nutrients are considered beneficial to organisms. Some organisms do benefit enourmously from the nutrients, but this leads to the deaths of other. The high concentr...

Answered by Daniel A. • Biology tutor

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Consider an isosceles triangle ABC, where AB=AC=1, M is the midpoint of BC, and <BAM=<CAM=x. Use trigonometry to find an expression for BM and by finding BC^2, show that cos2x = 1 - 2(sinx)^2.

Consider the right-angled triangle BAM. We have the hypotenuse and an angle, and want to find the opposite side. Therefore, using SOHCAHTOA, sinx = BM/1, hence BM = sinx. Because M is the midpoint of BC, ...

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