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Issy goes to buy some fruit. She has been told by one friend that 2 apples and 3 bananas costs £3.80. She has been told by another friend that 5 apples and a banana costs £3.65. what are the individual costs of an apple and a banana?

To solve this we form two simultaneous equations. To make things easier lets denote apples as A and bananas as B. So this means we can write the above information in two equations like so: EQ1) 2A + 3B = 380...
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Whats the effective resistance in a parallel and series circuit with a cell and two 12 ohms resistors ?

What do we know about parallel circuits- Total current is equal to sum of the current in the individual branches I T = I 1 + I 2 Component of each branch of a circuit share the same voltage as the cell V 1 =...
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What is close reading, and where do I start?

Close reading is really all about noticing things- noticing how the poem has been put together, and the specific choices the poet has made which have led to the finished piece. When you read a poem, your fir...
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Can you help me plan an essay with the title: 'Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech started the Cold War'

Yes:The Nature of the Speech, language used.Stalin's ReactionTruman's support for Churchill (Iron Fist approach)No:Winston Churchill had little influence as a politicianTruman Doctrine more influential in cr...
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Two simultaneous equations are given as 2x + y = 5 and 3x + y = 7. Find the value of x and y.

The unknowns of x and y are the same in each equation, allowing us to combine the two in order to find out their values.The substitution method can be used in most cases if the coefficient is the same with x...
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