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Solve 5x-9=26.

When a question asks us to solve an equation, it is asking us to find the value of x. We need to rearrange so that x is on one side of the equals sign, and everything else is on the other. First, we need ...

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Solve the simultaneous equations algebraically

x²+y²=25 and y-3x=13Step 1 is to label the equations (1) and (2). We shall label the first equation, the quadratic, as equation (1) and the second equation, the linear, as equation (...

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Solve the two simultaneous equations X2 +2Y2= 18 and X - Y = 3

1) X² +2Y²= 182) X - Y = 3
Rearrange 2) in the form X=3-Y then substitute in to 1); (3-y)²+2Y²=18, this is your new equation 39+3Y+3Y+Y²+2Y^...

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at a shop in the US tax is added onto the price of an item at the till. this shop adds 5.7% of the items value to the total cost. if you buy a ball priced as $15, how much will you have to pay ?

0.057 x 15 = 0.855 total = 15 + 0.988 = 15.855

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With a bag of 5 blue marbles, 7 green marbles, and 3 red marbles. What is the probability of picking out two blue marbles? Pick them one at a time and do not replace them.

So there are 15 marbles in total (5 + 7 + 3) The probability of the first marble will be the number of blue marbles / total number of marblesTherefore, you do 5/15 = 1/3 Then for the second marble you do ...

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