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Robin and Emma both buy cupcakes for a bake sale. Between them, they purchase 125 cupcakes for the bake sale. Emma buys 50% more cupcakes then Robin and gets a 20% discount. The total cost of the 125 cupcakes was £137.5. What is the price of one cupcake?

1 ) Identify the information given in the question:Total number of cupcakes bought: 125Number bought by Emma is 50% more than Robin: mathematically we write that was Emma = 1.5 Robin as 50% = 0.5 in decim...

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Expand and simplify x(x+4)(x-5)

Apply FOIL (First, outside, inside, last): (x + 4)(x - 5) = x2 - 5x + 4x -20 = x2 - x -20 x(x + 4)(x - 5) = x( x2 - x -20 ) = x3 - x2- 20x

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Explain why the points (0,8) do not lie on the line y= 4x+9 ? (3 marks)

To see if (0,8) lies on the line y, substitute 0 (the x coordinate) into y = 4x+9 so y=4(0)+9 y=4(0)+9 therefore y= 0+9 = 9since the output (9) is not the same as the respective coordinate (8), (0,8) d...

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Find the roots of the following quadratic equation: x^2 +2x -15 =0

The question asks for the roots, this simply means the numbers that could replace x in the equation and the result = 0. There are two ways too do this, firstly either using the Quadratic formula, or my fa...

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How do you solve a quadratic equation?

For example x2 - 2x - 35 = 0You would have two approaches to this question. You can either use the quadratic formula or you could simplify the expression. Using the formula you would have x = (...

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Answered by Bianka T. Maths tutor
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