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Work out the increase in price from £1.50 to £2.00 as a percentage.

To find the increase in price, you have to find the change in price and then compare that to the original price. The change in price is found by doing new price-old price (£2.00-£1.50=£0.50). You then find i...
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Fully simplify this equation; 3x^3 - x(3x+36) = 0

The first step is to multiply out the bracket 3x 3 - 3x 2 - 36x = 0 Then remove the common factor 3x 3x(x 2 - x - 12) = 0 Then factorise the bracket, by looking for two numbers which multiply to give -12, an...
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(x + 2)(x + 3)(x + 6)

First: (x + 2)(x + 3) = x 2 + 5x + 6 Second: (x 2 + 5x + 6)(x + 6) = x 3 + 5x 2 + 6x + 6x 2 + 30x + 36 = x 3 + 11x 2 + 36x +36 Answer: = x 3 + 11x 2 + 36x +36
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Expand and simplify 3(x-2) -2(x+2)

Notice that the questions specifies that you should expand and simplify. This means expanding the equations is a good idea. To expand the equation, we will start by expanding each brackets. 3(x-2)-2(x+2) =3x...
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Find an equation of the line which passes through the point (4,-7) and has slope 3.

To find the answer to this, we can use the point-slope form. To do this: y - (-7) = 3 (x - 4) Simplified: y + 7 = 3x - 12 : y = 3x - 19
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