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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...

6x + 2y = 2 and 12x -3y =18 

Start by multiplying the first equation by two in order to balance both equations to have equal numbers of x

12x + 4y = 4 and 12x - 3y = 18

Rearrange both...

'Simplest surd form' is a clue that quadratic factorising will not work for this question, so we must instead use the quadratic formula. It is always a good idea to quote this as marks are often available...