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Use the equation 2(x+4) + 6(x-1) = 14, to find x.

Firstly, you need to get rid of any brackets. You do this by expanding them. This becomes 2x + 8 + 6x - 6 = 14.

The next step is to get all the x's on one side, and all the numbers on the other. Yo...

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Solve the simultaneous equations (1) x + 3y = 7 and (2) 2x + y = 4

It's impossible to solve an equation with two unknowns (x and y) so we must find a way to get rid of either x or y before solving an equation. Using substitution rearrange the equation 1 so x is the only ...

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64% of an audience are female. Work out the ratio females : males Give your answer in its simplest form.

64% are female. This 64% out of 100%.

36% are male

So the ratio is 64 : 36 or 32 : 18

Can then be simplified to 16 : 9

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A cuboid of height 5 cm has a base of side 'a' cm. The longest diagonal of the cuboid is 'L' cm. Show that 'a' = SQRT[ (L^2 - 25)/2]

A cuboid is made of squares and rectangles, with the diagonal 'L' connecting opposite corners of the 2 square faces. As the cuboids corners are all right angles, all the diagonals form right angled triang...

Answered by Joshua P. • Maths tutor

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