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How is it possible to include so much information in such a short essay?

Precision and simplicity are what GCSE exam boards are looking for. You only have to look at the mark schemes to realise that it is very much a checking systen - there are specific points which the examiner ...
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What is the cardiac cycle?

The cardiac cycle is what happens during a single heartbeat. To understand the cycle it helps to know that the heart is made up of four chambers, the top 2 chambers are called the atria and the lower 2 chamb...
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What was ‘Manifest Destiny’?

'Manifest Destiny' was the American ideology of the 18th century that held the belief that Amricans were destined to settle and claim the land to the west as part of American expansionism. It was the idea th...
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Express 3 cos θ + 4 sin θ in the form R cos(θ – α), where R and α are constants, R > 0 and 0 < α < 90°.

To find the value of R, use Pythagoras's Theorem using the coeffecients of cos θ and sin θ. The correct answer should be R=5. Expand the expression R cos(θ – α). Equate the expanded expression with 3 cos θ +...
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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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