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How do you show that two lines do, or do not intersect?

How you should approach a question of this type in an exam
Say you are given two lines: Land Lwith equations and you are asked to deduce whether or not they...

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Answered by George R. Maths tutor
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How do you solve the simultaneous equations 3x + 4y = 5 and 2x – 3y = 9

We label each equation

3x + 4y = 5 (1)

2x – 3y = 9 (2)

We now want to get rid of one of the variables (x or y). Lets get rid of x:

SS
Answered by Sahiti S. Maths tutor
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If x = cot(y) what is dy/dx?

Here we will use:

cot(x) = cos(x)/sin(x)

cosec2(x) = 1 + cot2(x)

Chain rule : dy/dt * dt/ dx = dy/ dx

Product rule : d/dx (...

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Answered by Sahiti S. Maths tutor
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What does dy/dx represent?

dy/dx represents the gradient of a curve. The d represents an infinitesimally small range so it is essentially as though you are doing change in y over change in x like you would for a y = mx +c graph ...

MD
Answered by Madeleine D. Maths tutor
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How do I do integration by parts?

Say we have an equation with the product of two subjects in the form f(x) = u(x)v(x).

Differentiating is simple, we would just multiply the differential*...

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Answered by Doug A. Maths tutor
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