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What are some different views on free will and what do they mean?

Here are the main views on whether or not humans have free will:Hard Determinism: Our will and actions are completely controlled by external factors (God, the laws of nature and causation, etc). You can r...

Answered by Georgie Q. • Religious Studies tutor

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A curve has equation: y = x^3 - 3x^2 + 5. Show that the curve has a minimum point when x = 2.

A minimum point will have a gradient of 0 (although so will a maximum point or a point of inflection). dy/dx = 3x²-6x. We can substitute x = 2 into this equation to give 0 (alternatively solve ...

Answered by Tom C. • Further Mathematics tutor

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Define what degenerate genetic coding means and why it is advantageous

Degenerate genetic coding means that although there are 64 different codons, there are only 21 amino acids, meaning that there are multiple codons which code for one single amino acid. The advantage for t...

Answered by Avinash S. • Biology tutor

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Given y=arctan(3e^2x). Show dy/dx= 3/(5cosh(2x) + 4sinh(2x))

As we cannot immediately differentiate inverse tan we take tan of both sides giving us tan(y)=3e^2x.We then differentiate with respect to x, however this must be done using implicit differentia...

Answered by Matt S. • Further Mathematics tutor

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What are Type I and Type II errors?

A Type I error is when the null hypothesis is incorrectly rejected. The null hypothesis states that there is no relation between the independent variable and the dependent variable. This means the experim...

Answered by Gemma B. • Psychology tutor

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