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When plant cells are placed in salt solution their appearance is different to when they are placed in distilled water. Explain these changes.

When the plant cells are placed in the salt solution, there is a higher concentration of water molecules in the cell and a lower concentration of water in the salt solution and thus a concentration gradient ...
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A cuboid of height 5 cm has a base of side 'a' cm. The longest diagonal of the cuboid is 'L' cm. Show that 'a' = SQRT[ (L^2 - 25)/2]

A cuboid is made of squares and rectangles, with the diagonal 'L' connecting opposite corners of the 2 square faces. As the cuboids corners are all right angles, all the diagonals form right angled triangles...
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How do I simplify (1 / [1 + cos(x) ] ) + (1 / [1 - cos(x) ] )?

In order to add the fractions together, we must have a common denominator of the fractions. The simplest way to do this is to make the denominators of the equations the product of the original two denomniato...
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To what extent did African American lives improve due to government legislation between 1919-1955?

In this exam question I would suggest that it is split into two parts; to what extend did African American lies improve and how far was it due to government legislation. This would be a round the clock essay...
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A curve has the equation: x^4 + 2x -xy - y^3 - 10=0. Find dy/dx in terms of x and y.

We need to differentiate all values with respect to x. Therefore for the first two terms, multiply by the power and then subtract 1 from the original power. Therefore 4(x 4-1 ) + (2)(2x 2-1 ) which gives 4x ...
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