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Sam uses 140g of flour to make 12 cakes. How much flour will Sam need to make 21 cakes?

140 / 12 = 11.666^.

11.66^. * 21 = 245

Answered by Charlie N. Maths tutor
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Question: What proportion of the clock is the area covered when the time is 12:10? (Here the question should indicate the time stated and shade in the proportion of the clock to be computed.)

The key to answering this question is for the student to realise that even though the area to be computed is a difficlut shape (an arc), the clock consists of 5 more arcs of the same shape. Once the stude...

Answered by Annita V. Maths tutor
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Work out the value of 2a^2 + b^3 when a = 5 and b = –3

To work out the values you need to sub in a and b into the equation, giving you: 2(5)2 + (-3)3 From this we use the rules of BODMAS to first complete the orders and obtain: 2*25 + (-...

Answered by Kyle M. Maths tutor
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Each day Chen buys pasta or a sandwich. Where Pasta costs £3.20 and Sandwich costs £2.75. For 45 days, the relative frequency of Chen buying a sandwich was one fifth. Altogether, how much did he pay?

Firstly work out how many days Chen bought a sandwich, which was one fifth of 45 days. So 45/5 = 9. We then multiply 9 by the cost of a sandwich, 92.75 = 24.75. The remaining days Chen must have bough...

Answered by Kyle M. Maths tutor
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Prove that (4x–5)^2 – 5x(3x – 8) is positive for all values of x.

To begin we need to simplify the expression. First we multiply out (4x–5)^2 to get 16x2+40x+25 and then we multiply out 5x(3x – 8) to get 15x2-40x. This makes the whole expression 16...

Answered by Hannah W. Maths tutor
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