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Construct 3 phrases using the subjunctive (present and imperfect).

Me gustaría mucho si tuvieras más clases conmigo.Quiero que mis amigos vengan a la playa este fin de semana.Habría más árboles en el planeta si hubiera menos deforestación.
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Frank, Mary and Seth shared some sweets in the ratio 4:5:7. Seth got 18 more sweets than Frank. How many sweets were shared in total?

If you add 4+5+7 = 16, you can consider that Frank gets 4/16 of the sweets, Mary gets 5/16 and Seth gets 7/16. This because for every 4 sweets Frank gets, Mary gets 5 and Seth gets 7. If there are ‘x’ sweets...
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Find the equation of the tangent to the curve y = (5x+4)/(3x -8) at the point (2, -7)

(Much easier to explain in conversation and with drawings): But, An application of the quotient rule, stating that for f(x)=a(x)/b(x), f'(x) = a'(x)b(x) - a(x)b'(x) all over [b(x))]^2 Here, a(x) = 5x + 4 and...
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"Where would a contemporary ancient Athenian audience's sympathies lie in Sophocles' Antigone: with Creon, Antigone, or both?"

Before tackling such a question, we should consider the context in which Sophocles was writing, and in which his play is set. Typically in fifth-century Athens, a mention of Thebes would be met with hostilit...
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"In Tacitus, individuals are seldom virtuous without flaws or flawed without virtues, and the flaws are normally closely related to the virtues." Discuss.

What we first recognise about Tacitus and his characters is that, in spite of his notorious claim “consilium mihi pauca […] tradere […] sina ira et studio”, “my aim is to relate a few accounts without anger ...
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