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How should I analyse a book or play?

Prose and drama are great fun to analyse, often because there's so much to choose from! Your analysis will be different depending on whether you are given a short extract, or whether you have to discuss the ...
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Find ∫ x^2(ln(4x))dx

∫x 2 ln(4x)dx Firstly , identify this question as integration by parts. Therefore set one half as value 'u' and one as value 'dv'. Here we will set u = ln(4x). Therefore: du/dx = 1/4x . (4) du = 1/x dx We th...
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How would I analyse a poem?

Analysing poetry is a little bit different to analysing prose or drama and you can show that you understand this in your essay answer. Use PCQA (point, context, quote, analysis) as the structure to your answ...
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How to solve simultaneous equations with two unknowns?

There are two methods for solving simultaneous equations, the algebraic method or graphic method. While using graphs is a useful visual way to solve simultaneous equations, this is more time consuming and sh...
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When trying to solve inequalities (e.g. 1/(x+2)>x/(x-3)) I keep getting the wrong solutions even though my algebra is correct.

*The usual mistake with inequalities is not with a students algebra, but with lack of consideration of the inequality signs. During a tutorial I would show their false method and my correct one and also sket...
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Answered by Timothy H. • Maths tutor
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