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How do I skecth a grpah of y = x^2 - 7x + 10?

To plot any graph, you usually only need to find a few points that are on that graph to the sketch it. With a quadratic like this, the easiest way to do this is to find where the graph crosses the x and y ax...
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What is mitosis?

Mitosis is the DNA replication stage in somatic cells (non sex cells). It involves replication of DNA and ONE division of DNA to produce two genetically identical daughter cells. The stages specific to mitos...
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There are n sweets in a bag. 6 of them are orange, the rest are yellow. Hannah takes a random sweet, she eats the sweet and repeats again. The probability that hannah eats two orange sweets is 1/3. Show that n2 - n - 90 = 0.

The best way to think approach question is thinking of it like a tree diagram.We know there are n sweets in total. Therefore the probability of eating 1 orange sweet the first time is 6/n.The probability of ...
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A car of mass 1000 kg is travelling at 20 (m/s). The car crashes into a tree, and comes to a complete halt in 0.05s. Calculate the force acting on the car during the collision.

We are asked for the force acting on the car and we know from Newton's second law that F = ma Therefore, we need to calculate the acceleration first. We use a = (vf - vo)/(t - to) where vf = final speed, vo ...
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The perimeter of a right-angled triangle is 72 cm. The lengths of its sides are in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5. Work out the area of the triangle.

As we know the ratio of the sides is 3:4:5, label the sides x,y and z respectively. Side x is of length (3/12)*72, side y is of length (4/12)*72 and side z is of length (5/12) 72. Giving, x = 18cm, y = 24cm,...
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