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Why does a rise in interest rates lead to a fall in inflation?

A rise in interest rates increases the cost of borrowing and increases the reward for saving. This means that there is a double effect, people are disincentivised to borrow money and spend it, as well as hav...
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Find two positive numbers whose sum is 100 and whose product is a maximum.

Call the two numbers x and y. The constraint is that x + y =100, and we need to maximise A=xy. Rearrange the constraint to y = 100 - x, and substitute into the product equation. A = x(100-x) = 100x - x 2 Dif...
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Dónde se come mejor en España?

Es de saber común que la comida en la Península Ibérica es de calidad suprema. Sin embargo la gente no tiende a ponerse de acuerdo sobre cuál es la región española con la mejor gastronomía. Los valencianos e...
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Solve the integral: int(x^3+4x^2+sinx)dx.

First, since there are terms with different factors of x summing together, we can separate these into three individual integrals as follows:int(x 3 dx) + 4int(x 2 dx) + int(sinx dx)Then using the rules of in...
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Why is Lithium a +1 ion and Chlorine a -1 ion?

The answer lies in how many electron there are in the outer shells of each of the elements and how many electrons they can get or give away to gain a fuller outer shell. Lithium has 1 electron in its outer s...
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