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With this question the first thing to help you tackle it would be write the number as digits, i.e.Forty-seven thousand, nine hundred and eighty-three = 47,983Now, you want this number to the nearest thous...

If we think about a right angled triangle, it is the same as one half of a square or rectangle. This is because if we join two right angled triangles at their diagonal sides, we make a square or rectan...

Firstly, we must identify the two things that we need to work out our answer. They are: How many male runners there are, and how many male non-runners there are, as once we have these, the remaining va...

The most common way of doing this is called a bubble search (this may not be the technical name, but it's the one I was taught). The method is as follows:

Start by writing the number at t...

Start by multiplying the two numbers as though they didn't have a decimal point (e.g. 2.73.6 becomes 2736 = 972). Now add up how many decimal places were in the original two numbers (e.g. 2.7 ...