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What's the difference between a histogram and a bar chart?

A bar-chart is a graph where the height of the bar measures the frequency of a particular category which that bar represents. For a histogram, however, the height is the frequency density. This means that th...
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What are "x" and "y" and why are they used?

The letters "x" and "y", or any other similar letter in an equation, are examples of unknown variables . What this means is that we don't know their value, and often the aim of the game i...
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Rearrange the equation y=3x+2 to make x the subject.

The most important thing to remember about rearranging equations is that what you do to one side, you have to do to the other side as well to balance it. In the question above, to get rid of the 2 on the rig...
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How do I know whether to add or minus in Pythagoras's theorem?

Firstly it has to be a right angled trinagle. Even if it is an irregukar shape, draw a line in to make it a right angled triangle. When you have your right angled triangle remember it is ALWAYS + if it is th...
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Solve: 3(x - 2) = 21

First you look at BIDMAS, which determines the order in which functions are completed, [Brackets, Indices, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction], which says we deal with the brackets first, so we ...
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