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The answer is 4x(2x+y).The point of factorising is to find the common factor of the two variables in the original equation. Once we've found the common factor (4x in this instance), we bring it to the out...

Sodium and chloride form an ionic bond. Therefore the sodium atom loses one electron from its outer shell and the chlorine atom gains one electron. As this happens, the electron is transferred from the so...

(x + 1)(x + 2) = x^2 + 2x + x + 2 = x^2 + 3x+2therefore(x + 1)(x + 2)(x+3)= (x^2+3x+2)(x+3) = x^3 + 3x^2 + 2x + 3x^2 + 9x + 6 = x^3 + 6x^2+ 11x + 6where a=1 b=6 c=11 and d=9expansion of brackets can be do...

a) Smoke detector- americiumb) As alpha radiation is not very penetrating

i) multiply out: 3x3+kx2-3x-21x2-7kx+21 simplify: 3x3+(k-21)x2+(-7k-3)x+21 the coefficient of x2 is 0 and therefore k-21=0 k=21.
ii)from i) the c...