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I'm struggling with approaching questions in Maths, I just don't know where to start. What should I do?

My approach will take you step by step through each type of question you find difficult. Maths (quite usefully) is very procedural. This means if you follow the instructions step by step you'll find you're a...
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Answered by Gus R. • Maths tutor
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State the nth term of the following sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, 19

Start by labelling each term, e.g. 3 is the 1st, 7 is the second etc Find the difference between each term, in this case +4 so we know our nth term will start with 4n Now we substitute in the number for n, w...
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Answered by Alice L. • Maths tutor
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f(x) = 6x³ + 13x² - 4. Use the factor theorem to show that (x+2) is a factor of f(x)

If x+2 is a factor implies x=-2 is a solution Sub in x=-2 : f(-2) = 6*(-2)³ + 13*(-2)² -4 = 6*-8 +13*4 - 4 = 0 f(-2) = 0 therefore x+2 is a solution
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Answered by Benjamin S. • Maths tutor
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Fidn the solutions to the quadratic equation: x^2 - 16 = 0

Solve by adding 16 to both sides of the equation yielding: x^2 = 16. Then take the square root of both sides (remembering that taking the square root gives us a positive and a negative answer), giving us x =...
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Answered by Paul D. • Maths tutor
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A graph is sketched with the equation x^2+4x-5. Find the minimum point of this graph.

Okay so the first thing we can identify is that it is a quadratic, hence the x 2 at the beginning. From this we can now start to answer the question. To calculate the minimum point we must " complete th...
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Answered by Harry S. • Maths tutor
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