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Explain the difference between a longitudinal and transverse wave.

Imagine we have a wave that is travelling from left to right. This is the wave's direction of motion, or what is sometimes called the direction of "energy propagation". In a transverse wave the par...
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Explain three factors that could lead to an increase in demand for cigarettes.

Demand is the total amount of goods and services that consumers are willing and able to purchase at a given price in a given time period. The Law of Demand states that as the price of a product falls, the qu...
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Solve x^2-5x+6=0

To solve this, we need to factorise the expression (write as a product of two brackets). To do this we want to find to numbers that multiply to make +6 and add up to -5, for this case. These numbers turn out...
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Write down the value of 36^0.5

We know that the question is asking us to take the number 36 to the power of 0.5. By assumption 0.5 can be written as 1/2. To take 36 to the power of a 1/2 we take it to the root of the denominator and then ...
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Solve the following simultanious equations: zy=28 and 2z-3y=13

zy=28 so y=28/z13=2z-3y13= 2z - (28 x 3)/z13=2z-84/zmultiply each side by z to give 13z = 2z 2 -84rearange for a quadratic2z 2 -13z-84=0solve by factorising(2z+8)(z-21/2)z= -4 0r 21/2substitute -4 into both ...
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