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Bag A contains £7.20 in 20p coins. Bag B contains only 5p coins. The number of coins in bag B is three-quarters of the number of coins in bag A. How much money is in bag B?

First you want to find out how many coins there are in bag A. So how many 20p coins do you need to make £7.20? This is the same as 720p. 720 divided by 20 is the same as 72 divided by 2 which is 36. So...

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Answered by Anezka E. Maths tutor
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How should I go about factorising x^2+5x+6?

I always think of the middle number as the sum and the last number as the product (in this example, we have the sum as 5 and the product as 6!) This just means that we have to look for two numbers which a...

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Answered by Laura W. Maths tutor
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Can you solve (2x-4)(x+1)=0?

All we need to do here is find the values of x that make each bracket zero.So2x-4=02x=4x=2andx+1=0x=-1

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Answered by Samuel I. Maths tutor
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In triangle ABC, right angled at B, AB = 3 cm and AC = 6 cm. Determine angle BAC and angle ACB.

Using the trignometric principles,sin (ACB) = AB/AC = 3/6 = 1/2Thus, angle ACB = 30 degreesand angle BAC = 90 - angle ACB = 60 degrees

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Answered by Piyush S. Maths tutor
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Find the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial x^2 + 8x + 15.

x2+8x+15 = (x+3)(x+5)So, the value of x2+8x+15 is zero when x2+8x+15 = 0 i.e. x = -3 or x = -5.

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Answered by Piyush S. Maths tutor
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