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Find the length of the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle which has other two sides of length 5 and 12.

When we have 2 sides of a right angled triangle, we can use Pythagoras' Theorem to find the third missing side. This theorem states that if we label the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) as <...

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Find an expression for the nth term of the following sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19

In terms of understanding the question, we are asked to look for a common rule that would help us find any term, or member, of the sequence in the question, no matter how big. The "nth" bit they...

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solve the inequality x^2-4x+4>0

x2 -4x+4>0 => (x-2)(x-2)>0. We can illustrate this line on a graph showing a quadratic whose vertex is at (2,0). Therefore, the answer to our inequality is x<2,x>2 (but x does no...

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Factorise this quadratic = 8x^2 + 2x -3

As the coefficient of x^2 is not 1, we think of this equation as ax^2 +bx + c. When the coefficient of x^2 is not 1, then we need to firstly multiply the first and last numbers together (8 and -3) which g...

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What is algebra?

Algebra is fundamentally the way in which we can find out the value of some unknown element. So for example, if a salesman agrees to sell two apples for £10 algebra can help us find out how much one apple...

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