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Find the area of a sector with a radius of 5cm and an angle of 120 degrees?

pi r r

pi 5x5

25pi = 360 degrees

120/360 x 25pi = 25/3 pi

Teaching Points:

Area of a circle + other formalue for circumfrence

Degrees of a circle

Fracti...

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How do you measure the gradient of a straight line joining two points?

There is a simple method for working out the gradient of a straight line joining any two points, for which the X and Y coordinates are known. For instance, if our first point is: A(X₁,Y₁

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What is 17% of 84?

We know that 17% is the same as 17/100 or 0.17 so we do 0.17*84 = 14.28.

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How do you solve quadratic equations?

A typical GCSE question will give you an equation in the from ax² + bx + c, x² - 8x + 15 = 0 for example, and ask you to solve the possible value of X. To do this we need to split th...

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How do you solve the following simultaneous equations? Equation 1: 2x + 3y = 13 Equation 2: 3x - y = 3

There are various ways to solve simultaneous equations. The two easiest are by elimiation and by substitution. By Elimation When solving by elimination you want to ensure that you ...

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