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The cost of 5 calculators is £35. Work out the cost of 8 of these calculators.

If the cost of 5 calculators is equal to £35, then we can use division to figure out how much one calculator costs. If we divide 35 by 5 we get the number 7. This means that one of the calculators is going t...
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What are surds and how does multiplying them work?

A surd is an irrational number which cannot be expressed as a fraction or a recurring number. E.g. root 2 = 1.4142135…. and it continues (but it does NOT repeat like a recurring fraction though) . E.g. pi wo...
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How do I use the product rule for differentiation?

The product rule is a rule for differentiating products of expressions, i.e. 2 expressions multiplied together. The rule is: if y=A B, then dy/dx=A dB/dx +B*dA/dx. This can be remembered as "Write down ...
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What is Standard form? And when can I use it?

Standard form, also referred to as standard index form is a method of writing really big and really small numbers. It uses powers of 10 to express its size.Standard form is used all the time in science and e...
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The number of uniform spherical shots that can be made from a given mass of lead varies inversely to the cube of the radius. When the radius is 1mm the number of shots made is 2744. How many shots of radius 1.4mm can be made from the same mass.

The key to long questions like these is picking out the key information quickly. We have 2 pieces of information we are interested in, the number of shots and the radius of each shot, so let's assign them a ...
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