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What is the fraction of blue beads?

A tin contains red, white and blue beads in the ratio red:white:blue = x:2x:x^2 First we should find the total number of beads in the tin: x + 2x + x^2 = 3x + x^2 The number of blue beads is x^2 So the fract...
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Answered by Rheanne B. • Maths tutor
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How many people chose A?

In a survey people had to choose either A, B, C or D. The percentage of people that chose B, C and D are shown here: B- 25% C- 35% D- 30% You are also told that 150 people chose B. How many chose A? So first...
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Are there any tricks that can help me learn the gender of nouns in German?

In German, all nouns are masculine (der), feminine (die), neuter (das) or plural (die). On the whole you need to learn the genders individually, however there some guidelines that can help you.. Nouns that a...
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Answered by Joseph D. • German tutor
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How do you construct the past tense in French?

Unlike in the English past tense, the French have two auxiliary 'helping' verbs - avoir and être, these become before the past participle, e.g. descendu. For example, j'ai mangé, and je suis allé. So as you ...
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Answered by Joseph D. • French tutor
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Expand and simplify (5x – 2y)(3x – 4y)

Expand and simplify (5x – 2y)(3x – 4y) In this question, we are asked to 'expand' out the brackets. What this means is we need each term in one set of brackets (5x and -2y) to be multiplied by each term in t...
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Answered by Jamie L. • Maths tutor
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