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Understanding of the ratio: 2+3=5, 3/5 is white, 2/5 blue, 2.818(3/5) + 3.518(2/5) No calculator paper, so check ability to do accurately arithmetic as above and make sure to think about...

Firstly, make sure to draw a picture! Worded questions are used to catch people out. Drawing a diagram makes solving certain problems much easier.

Secondly, notice that we are asked for two pieces ...

Like when there are two unknowns, the best way to solve this kind of problem is to rearrange and substitute, but because there are three unknowns, it's a bit more fiddly. To solve this you want to pick an...

Firstly, we can calculate the total percentage of gold members = Total - bronze - silver

Therefore, %gold = 100% - 40% - 28% = 32%

So we know that 32% of 275 members are gol...

SOH CAH TOA (imagining each as a triangle)

S = sin

C = cos

T = tan

O = opposite

H = hypotenuse

A = adjacent