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If I have a reocurring decimal I use a special trick to work it out as a fraction. The trick is to try and cancel out the reocurring bit by multiplying by 10 several times and then using subtractio...

Multiples that equal 20: 1 and 20, 2 and 10, 4 and 5Which of these multiples add/subtract to give -9?= -4 and -5Therefore answer is:(x-4)(x-5)=0x= 4 or x= 5

Drawing a diagram for this would show that the height of the tree above us is given by tan(63)*15, so the total height is this added to 1.6 m. This gives a height of 31 m.

The key to solving simultaneous equations is trying to reduce them into one equation. You can see that one of these equations is quadratic, so you should be thinking there will be 2 answers for x and y. Y...

eq.1 4x+3y=7eq.2 3x+7y=16
You want to eliminate one of the variables (either x or y) reducing the problem to just one equation with one variable which can be solved. This can be done by multiplying e...