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How can you solve a quadratic equation?

There are 3 main ways of solving a quadratic equation x^2 + bx + c = 0 (we'll suppose the coefficient of x^2 is 1 for now). The first is factorisation, where if you can spot that you can factorise the expres...
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How do you integrate tan^2(x)?

This is a question which tests your knowledge of how to use trigonometric identities as well as integration. As there is no way to immediately integrate tan^2(x) using well known trigonometric integrals and ...
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Why is the derivative of x^2 equal to 2x?

Differentiation is finding the slope of a graph; how steep it is at some point. In this case, we want to find out how steep the graph of x^2 is. To do this, we could look at the slope between two points on t...
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Solve 5x-13 > 3x-7 for x.

What we're aiming to do is to have the 5x and 3x on the same side, and the constants on the other side of the inequality. So first let's subtract 3x from both sides, which gives 5x-3x-13>-7. Now to 'move'...
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How would I find the approximate area enclosed by the expression e^x*sin(x)*x^3 on an infinite scale?

The area under a curve is analytically calculated using the integral of the function. The integral of the function above could be calculated using integration by parts twice, considering that 3 functions are...
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