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You should treat the question as you would a normal quadratic and complete the square. First you should look at the factors of 16 and see which pair would result in the -17x; you can see that it would be ...

Let's use a general equation for straight lines, y= mx +c. Here, the m and c represent numbers (or constants), which will differ for each specific line. The number in the place of the m is the gradient of...

You need to solve the question so this means you need to work out the value of w. To work out the value of w you rearrange the terms and make w the subject of the equation. 

Start with minusing 3w ...

Pythagoras' theorem is used to calculate the lengths of the sides of a right angled triangle. 

The theorem is as follows : a² = b² + c², where a is the len...

the basic idea is to get everything with the unknown (let's assume this is x) on one side of the equals and everything else on the other side. To do this we use the 'inverse idea' to move our items onto d...