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What is the difference between passé composé and imparfait?

Both of these tenses are used to denote events that occured in the past, but they are troublesome for several reasons and used in broadly different contexts. First, it is important to note that the imperfect...
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If mpc = 0.6, what will be the final change in National Income arising from an initial increase in Investment of £200m?

In this case, mpc is the Marginal Propensity to Consume, which is a value between 0 and 1 representing the proportion spent on consumption of an extra unit of income received by a consumer. It is used formul...
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Find the set of values of x for which x(x-4) > 12

When solving this quadratic inequality, we should use a three-step approach. The first step is to reformat the inequality to put one side equal to zero, which is the standard format of a quadratic equation. ...
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Simplify (5-2√3)/(√3-1) giving your answer in the form p +q√3, where p and q are rational numbers

The trick here is to use a technique called the difference of squares. If we multiply the top and bottom of the fraction by the conjugate* of the denominator, we can remove any square root terms from the den...
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Find the exact solution of the equation in its simplest form: 3^x * e^4x = e^7.

First take natural logs of both sides, giving us: ln(3 x * e 4x ) = ln(e 7 ). The RHS can be simplified using the definition of natural logs, so ln(e 7 ) = 7. We can then apply the product rule for logs (ln(...
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