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Amber earns £7 for each hour she works from Monday to Friday. She earns £10 for each hour she works on Saturday. One week Amber worked for 4 hours on Saturday. That week she earned a total of £180. How many hours did Amber work that week?

So to break this question down, I would highlight the key points of the question.

She earns £7 per hour on Monday to Friday.

She earns £10 per hour on Saturday

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Answered by Nurul Sofia Hannah M. • Maths tutor
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Finding the value of x when 3x + 5 = 35

3x + 5 = 35

In this situation, you would want to take away 5 to both sides.

3x + 5 - 5 = 35 - 5

3x = 30

Then you would want to divide both sides by 3 in order to get x on the l...

Answered by Nurul Sofia Hannah M. • Maths tutor

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How do you add or take away fractions? E.g: what is 1/3 + 3/4

1/3 + 3/4

First we make the denominator the same. i.e: we would multiple 1/3 by 4 and multiply 3/4 by 3 in order to get the same denominator.

4/12 + 9/12.

Now you can add the numera...

Answered by Nurul Sofia Hannah M. • Maths tutor

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How to find a modulus and argument of w that is a quotient of z1 and z2 such that z1 = 1 + root(3)i and z2 = 1+ i using modulus-argument form?

First of all, transform both z₁and z₂ into modulus-argument form. To obtain that form, you are going to need a modulus (the length of the hypotenuse on the Argand diagram) and argum...

Answered by Piotr S. • Maths tutor

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Write (x-2)(x+4)=10 in the form ax^2 + bx + c = 0 and work out the values of a, b and c

We should begin by multiplying out the brackets. Firstly, multiply each term in the first bracket with the first term in the second bracket: x times x equals x² and -2 multiplied by x is equal ...

Answered by Thomas C. • Maths tutor

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