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The diagram shows the position of two ships, A and B, and a lighthouse L. Ship A is 5km from L on a bearing of 070° from L. Ship B is 3km from L on a bearing of 210° from L. Find the distance between A and B correct to 3.s.f.

(Draw diagram) From the diagram we can see that angle BLA= 210-70 = 140° . So for our triangle BLA we now have two sides and an included angle and we want to work out the length of the side opposite the a...

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Show that the lines A: y= 2x-5. and the line B: 2y-4x+3=0 are parallel.

If two lines are parallel they have the same gradient. line A is in the form y=mx+c where m is the gradient and c is the y intercept. Therefore, the gradient of A =2.Get B into the form y=mx+c to compare ...

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-3<n<1 n is an integer, write down all the possible values of n.

-2, -1, 0 M1 for 2 correct values, M2 for all 3 correct values

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Work out the value 125^(-2/3) (A* Exam Q)

Whenever you have a negative power always take the reciprocal or flip the base value i.e 125. So now it is 1/125 raised to the power of 2/3. By flipping it over the fractional index is no longer negative....

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