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Solve the following simultaneous equations: 4x+y=10 and 2x-3y=19

To begin to solve this question, we need to re-arrange the equations presented so they both appear in terms of 3y=. This will allow us to get a value for y and thus a value for x. First re-arrange the fir...

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Answered by Hugh W. Maths tutor
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Solve this pair of simultaneous equations. 5x + 2y = 20 x + 4y= 13

One way to solve simultaneous equations is to express x in terms of y (or vice versa) and solve your new equation to find one of the values. You can then substitute this into your equation to work out the...

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Answered by Ned B. Maths tutor
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Text books are stored on two shelves. Each shelf is 0.72m long. Each textbook is 30 millimetres wide. Could 50 textbooks be stored on these shelves? (3 marks)

None caluclator paper, so you know that the divisions/multiplications will be relatively simple. First thing to do is convert both measurements we have into the same units (in this case millimetres). We s...

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Answered by Sophia D. Maths tutor
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Show that 6sin(60◦) + 5tan(60◦) can be written in the form √k where k is an integer.

sin(60◦) = √3 /2 

tan(60◦) = √3

6sin(60◦) + 5tan(60◦) = 3√3 + 5√3 = 8√3 = √64√3 = √192

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Answered by Alistair G. Maths tutor
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Solve the following equations x^2-2x+4=0, x^2+4x+1=0

x2-2x+4= (x-2)(x-2)=0  x=-2 (double root)  

x2+5x+1=0

x1,2= -5+_ (52-4(1)(1) )0.5/2 

x1=4.8     x2=-0.2 (t...

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Answered by Kyriakos F. Maths tutor
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