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Find the unknown side A ( trigonometry with one known side and an angle)

First we need to make sure we have a nicely labelled triangle, identifying which sides are the adjacent, opposite and hypotenuse. 2) Once these are labelled we will can work out which trig function to use wi...
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Find the equation of the tangent to y = 2x^2 + 7 at x = 3.

The first step here is to identify what to do. Differentiating the equation y = 2x^2 + 7 will result in dy/dx = 4x. Given that you know that x = 3, you can substitute x = 3 into 4x which gives you 4(3) = 12....
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How to find the nth term of a quadratic sequence?

Find the difference between each term in the sequence. Then find the second difference, i.e. the difference between each of the primary differences. Divide this by 2, to give you the coefficient of n^2. Now ...
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Give the possible values of x when x^2 - 5x + 4 = 0

First, when faced with a question like this you must factorise the expression. So we need to factorise x 2 -5x+4 into 2 linear parts. (Linear terms are terms without any powers of x). To do this, we need to ...
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Question: Expand (p + 2)(p - 5)

Expanding - or geting rid of brackets. Make sure you multiply everything by everything! Correct: p 2 +2p -5p -10 = p 2 -3p -10 Wrong: p 2 + 2p -5 ...forgot that the -5 also needs to be multiplied by (p+2) Wr...
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