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Jason and Mary leave their houses at the same time. They travel towards each other, Mary at 20km/h and Jason at 15km/h. They pass each other after an hour and a half. What was the original distance between them when they started?

Mary = 20km/h Jason = 15km/h s = d/t After 1.5 hours, Mary = 30km and Jason = 22.5km 30 + 22.5 = 52.5km
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What is a caesura in poetry and what effect can it have?

A caesura is a pause in the middle of a line of poetry. It usually comes in the form of punctuation, and the most common ones are full stops and commas. A full stop creates a harsher contrast between the fir...
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Solve y = x^2 + 3x + 2 = 0

Factorising gives: y = (x+2)(x+1) = 0. y only equals 0 when (x+2)=0 or (x+1)=0. Therefore x=-2 or x=-1
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How are living organisms involved in the cycling of carbon?

Examples of living organisms involved in the cycling of carbon include plants, animals and microorganisms. Plants, for instance, take part in photosynthesis - a process through which carbon dioxide is taken ...
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How do you write code to implement a recursive fibonacci algorithm?

def recursiveFib(x): x = int(x) if x == 0: return (0) elif x == 1 or x == 2: return (1) elif x > 2: return (recursiveFib(x-2)+recursiveFib(x-1)) print ("Please enter a number of fibonacci numbers req...
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