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How do I show my interests outside of my A Levels?

It is key to look at what individual universities expect from the personal statements.The ratio of academic vs extra curricular content varies at each university. For example at an Oxford University taster d...
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How does the author present the character in this extract?

This question is asking you to focus on a particular character within an extract from a novel or a play. As you are looking at just an extract and not the whole text, you need to be specific in your analysis...
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Solve by factorisation. 3x^2 + 11x – 20 = 0

Factorisation is a skill learned through a lot of practise. For questions with a coefficient of x, I like to use the 'House Method'.Step 1 - multiply the coefficient of x 2 with the constant. =3*(-20)=-60Ste...
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A)Write x^2 – 8x + 25 in the form (x – a)^ 2 + b. (B) Write down the coordinates of the turning point of the graph of y = x2 – 8x + 25. (C)Hence describe the single transformation which maps the graph of y = x2 onto the graph of y = x2 – 8x + 25.

This is a question about completing the square of a quadratic equation. This is used to find the minimum point on a parabolic graph. A) Step 1 - set up the '(x – a) 2 ' term by dividing the coefficient of x ...
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Answered by Peter P. • Maths tutor
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Find the value of X when 3x^2 + 6x + 3 = 0

Firstly we can see that this equation can be simplified. They are all divisible by 3 so this means we can simplify it to x^2 + 2x + 1 =0 Now we need to find what times together equals 1 but when added togeth...
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