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20% of 14,000

For any percentage that is a factor of 10 you can always start off by dividing by 10.So for example, 20%, 30%, 40% of a value, you always start off by diving by 10.In this case we divide 14,000 by 10 = 14...

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Renee buys 5kg of sweets to sell. She pays £10 for the sweets. Renee puts all the sweets into bags. She puts 250g of sweets into each bag. She sells each bag of sweets for 65p. Renee sells all the bags of sweets. Work out her percentage profit.

To find the percentage profit, we must first find the amount of money she receives from the sale of the bags of sweets.This is equal to the number of bags sold multiplied by the sale price of each bag.The...

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Determine the coordinates of the intersection point(s) between the line y = x^2 + 4x - 8 and y = - 2x - 17

Step 1 - Label y = x + 4x – 8 as equation 1 and y = - 2x – 17 as equation 2.Step 2 - In this particular question it is easier to eliminate the y variable from both equations, as they are both...

Answered by Georgie M. Maths tutor
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Solve (2x^2 - 3x - 14)/(x^2 + 6x + 8) = -6/(x+3).

LHS: Factorise numerator and denominator, which gives:((2x - 7)(x + 2))/((x + 2)(x + 4))Cancel out (x + 2), gives:(2x - 7)/(x + 4)Multiply both sides by (x + 4)(x + 3) to cancel the denominators, gives:(2...

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Prove that the square of an odd number is always 1 more than a multiple of 4

Let n be any whole number. Any odd number can be written as 2n+1. Any odd number squared is therefore (2n+2)2=2n2n+22n+1=4n2+4n+1=4(n2+n)+1. n2+n is a ...

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