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There are "n" sweets in a bag, six are orange and the rest are yellow. If you take a random sweet from the bag and eat it. Then take at random another one and eat it. The probability of eating two orange sweets is 1/3. Show that n²-n-90=0.

We have:

n= total of sweets

6= orange sweets

(6-n)=yellow sweets (We use 6-n beacuse we know that if 6 sweets are orange, the rest must be yellow, so yellow sw...

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Answered by Raquel L. Maths tutor
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The perimeter of a square is sqrt(120) cm, what is the area?

A square is a shape with 4 equal lengthed sides. The perimeter is the sum of the lengths of the sides. Therefore for a square, the length of one side is a quarter of the perimeter.

In thi...

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Answered by Harry M. Maths tutor
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Draw the graph of x^3 + x^2 - 6x

This is a cubic curve because the highest power to which x is being raised is 3. Cubic curves with addition x^2 and x terms often have a distinctive shape - sort of like a capital 'N' drawn using curve...

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Answered by George H. Maths tutor
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Solve x^2 - 7x + 10 = 0

First factorise: (x - 2)(x - 5) = 0

Then either: x - 2 = 0   so x = 2

            or   x - 5 = 0   so x = 5

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Answered by Aran D. Maths tutor
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Rearranging equations

Quesiton:

Solve 10x - 7 = 5x + 3, to find the value of x

Answer:

x = 0.5 

Solution:

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Answered by Hamid S. Maths tutor
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