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Like when there are two unknowns, the best way to solve this kind of problem is to rearrange and substitute, but because there are three unknowns, it's a bit more fiddly. To solve this you want to pick an...

Firstly, we can calculate the total percentage of gold members = Total - bronze - silver

Therefore, %gold = 100% - 40% - 28% = 32%

So we know that 32% of 275 members are gol...

SOH CAH TOA (imagining each as a triangle)

S = sin

C = cos

T = tan

O = opposite

H = hypotenuse

A = adjacent

1. 5x + 3y = 41   2) 2x + 3y = 20 Subtract equation 2) from equation 1) to cancel the y's (3y-3y = 0) .  Next we subtract  the x's (5x - 2x = 3x) and then finally we have 41 - 20 = 21. We now have that...

Recognise that quadratic can be factorised:

(x+4)(x-1)=0

This gives the solutions x=-4 and x=1 by inspection.