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A brother and sister share some pocket money together in the ratio of 4:7. The brother receives £18 less than his sister. How much pocket money do the brother and sister get each?

The brother receives £18 less, meaning the sister receives £18 more than the brother.7 - 4= 3. This means that 3 parts of the ratio is equal to £18, therefore 1 part of the ratio is equal to £6.Brother ge...

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Comound interest: A car is bought for the price of £12 000, but its value depreciates every year by 8%. Calculate, how much will the car be worth in 5 years

The question states the value of the car depreciates every year by 8%. This means that from the original, 100% value of the car in a set year, every consecutive year the value will decrease by 8% so that ...

Answered by Victoria B. Maths tutor
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How to find LCM and HCF of two numbers

Take numbers 24 and 36 for example.First we'd need to find the prime factors of each of the two numbers which can be done through factor trees24 = 23x 336 = 22 x 32What we...

Answered by Nafi I. Maths tutor
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Given that 3cm and 4cm are the shorter sides of a right-angled triangle, find the length of the hypotenuse.

When given 2 known sides of a right angled triangle, we can use Pythagoras' Theorem to find the last unknown side. The formula follows as below:A2 = B2 + C2Where A represe...

Answered by Hamzah H. Maths tutor
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A is the point with coordinates (5, 9) B is the point with coordinates (d, 15) The gradient of the line AB is 3 Work out the value of d.

To work out the coordinates of point B, you need to look at all of the information that is given in the question.The question tells you that the gradient of the line is 3, which implies that we need to us...

Answered by Sophie C. Maths tutor
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