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Which has greater area? A parallelogram with base length 10cm and perpendicular height 6cm, or a circle of diameter 8cm.

The question requires you to work out the area of the two shapes individually and then compare your answers to see which is greater.Firstly, to calculate the area of the parallelogram you must recall the ...

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Answered by Sam W. Maths tutor
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Solve 8(x + 3) = 36

In this question (taken from a non-calculator higher level GCSE maths past paper), we want to find an answer x=?

Ultimately we want to leave 'by itself...

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Answered by Kathryn P. Maths tutor
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Differentiate y= (2x+1)^3. [The chain rule]

For maths questions I feel that getting your head around the concepts are difficult but once achieved allow you to comfortably answer a wide range of questions. Therefore for maths tuition I think it i...

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Answered by James J. Maths tutor
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What is the probability that a leap year has 53 Sundays?

This is pretty straight forward.
There are 366 days in a leap year, i.e, 1 more than a normal year.

Now, 52 weeks make up 344 days (52 x 7 = 344)
That means that we already ha...

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Answered by Yatharth R. Maths tutor
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How do I find the area of a circle C with diameter 14cm?

The formula for the area of a circle is π r2. To use this formula we first need to find r, the radius of the circle. The radius is the distance from the centre of the circle to the edge, and...

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Answered by Tamsyn H. Maths tutor
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