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Lottie has a bag of applies. She gives half of them to Fred. Fred eats two and then has four left. How many apples did Lottie have at the start?

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1.     Write the information down in equation form defining unique symbols to represent the unknowns2.     DOF analysis: Count the number of equations and unknowns? a.     If...

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Answered by Niraj G. Maths tutor
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Express 12.5% as a fraction.

To make a percentage into a fraction you divide it by 100. This means 12.5% is 12.5/100. However, when giving fractions as an answer it needs to be done in the simplest form. To do this you need to find t...

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Answered by Thanu G. Maths tutor
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what is 49^(-3/2) simplified?

so the first step would be to deal with the minus in the indice, which gives you the reciprocal making it1/49^(3/2)you then approach the rest of the indice which is 3/2, the simplest way to do this is to ...

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Answered by Cora F. Maths tutor
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Expand and simplify (3x-1)(2x+1)(5-x)

First you need to expand and simplify two of the brackets, say (3x-1)(2x+1). There's 2 elements in the first bracket and 2 elements in the second, so you should end up with 22=4 elements in the expans...

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Answered by Ben C. Maths tutor
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How do you rearrange formula?

First of all we need to identify what it is we're trying to get onto one side of the equation. In this example;y = 2x - 5 we are asked to arrange the formula in terms of x. To do this we need to first get...

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Answered by Mallory T. Maths tutor
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