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often with functions you may be required to find the maximum or minimum point in a curve. This can be especially present in a quadratic function. These are functions that have an x raised to the power of ...

By solving this equation we are trying to find the value of x. First we must combine the two fractions into one by finding the common denominator. The least common denominator in this case is (x-...

Fadhila is wrong. To work out price increases/decreases we need to multiply the original price by a decimal number. A reduce by 20% means multiplying by 0.8: we need to take away 20% of the original numbe...

In order to solve this equation we need to rearrange it to have all of the variables on one side of the equals sign and the constants on the other. We do this by multiplying each term by the denominator o...

A easy way to solve simultaneous equations is to substitiute one equation into another and then equate to find one of the unknowns. Once this has been found its a simple matter of substituting it back int...