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Solve 5w – 3 = 3w + 15

You need to solve the question so this means you need to work out the value of w. To work out the value of w you rearrange the terms and make w the subject of the equation. Start with minusing 3w on both sid...
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Answered by Danielle H. • Maths tutor
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Triangle PQR is a right angled triangle. PQ is the hypotenuse and is 5cm long and QR has length 3cm. What is the length of side PR? Show your working.

Pythagoras' theorem is used to calculate the lengths of the sides of a right angled triangle. The theorem is as follows : a 2 = b 2 + c 2 , where a is the length of the hypotenuse. The hypotenuse is the side...
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What is the difference between mutually exclusive and indepedent events?

Let's say that we have two events and we'll call them event A and event B. If these events were mutually exclusive then these events would not be able to occur at the same time. For example, if Real Madrid a...
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Answered by Callum S. • Maths tutor
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How do I solve an algebraic expression when the unknown is on both sides of the equals sign?

the basic idea is to get everything with the unknown (let's assume this is x) on one side of the equals and everything else on the other side. To do this we use the 'inverse idea' to move our items onto diff...
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Answered by Coral R. • Maths tutor
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What is the chain rule?

A special rule, the chain rule, exists for differentiating a function of another function (finding dy/dx). Consider the expression cos x 2 . We call such an expression a ‘function of a function’. We could id...
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Answered by Diego M. • Maths tutor
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