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Reply 40

mariah2011

Original post by lala*15

Your fine..that was the last question...

💝Life's too short💝

They're talking about a house question involving someone called Alex I don't recall!!

Reply 41

5h3bi

Original post by par71

I can't remember the exact solutions but I got something like -0.78 and -2.78. Whatever the exact answers were, I'm pretty sure that I got them both right.

But since it's a quadratic I would expect them to be symmetrical but I must have got it wrong

Reply 42

Gillraj

What was the answers to the simultaneous equation

Reply 43

TheConfusedMedic

Original post by starstudent7

I got 2m so I put yes! :frown:

I think I have simplified it to much. :angry:

Oh how did you get to your answer? I know loads of people who got the same so you're probably right.
I said that the length of the triangle was x, and then worked out the height of it using pythagoras etc. Then did base * height * 0.5 * 4 = 8, rearranged everything to find x, and then substituted this value of x into the expression for the height of the triangle.
Typing this out is making me feel like that was the wrong method lmao :lol:

Reply 44

starstudent7

Original post by surina16

can't remember exactly but I multiplied everything by 2.5. The first one was a decimal and the other 3 were whole numbers?

What did you get for the bearings question, I got 120km. :smile:

Also for the question with a white rectangle inside a large rectangle? :smile:

Reply 45

Halzy1234

Original post by Gillraj

What was the answers to the simultaneous equation

I knew it was 52 & 80 because opposite angles add up to 180 but I found it difficult to solve the simultaneous equation.

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Reply 46

TheConfusedMedic

Original post by Gillraj

What was the answers to the simultaneous equation

20 and 12?

Reply 47

Halzy1234

Original post by surina16

20 and 12?

I got 20 for one of them at one point but couldn't find the other one so I moved on

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Reply 48

TheConfusedMedic

Original post by par71

I can't remember the exact solutions but I got something like -0.78 and -2.78. Whatever the exact answers were, I'm pretty sure that I got them both right.

I think that was right because I then substituted those values (non-rounded versions) into the original equation and got 3 :smile:

Reply 49

Halzy1234

Original post by surina16

I think that was right because I then substituted those values (non-rounded versions) into the original equation and got 3 :smile:

I didn't have enough time to do the entire thing because there was like less than 5 minutes left

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Reply 50

starstudent7

Original post by surina16

No, I think your answer is right as my working out seemed to simple for 5 marks. :smile:

You're really clever anyway so I trust your answer! :smile:

Reply 51

starstudent7

Original post by surina16

20 and 12?

Yes that's what I got. :smile:

Reply 52

Miz9

Original post by surina16

can't remember exactly but I multiplied everything by 2.5. The first one was a decimal and the other 3 were whole numbers?

One of the answers was 5(the egg one) and I think the decimal one was 167.5(flour) and I can't remember the rest.

Reply 53

BULL14

Original post by surina16

I got 1.86...m for the height of the tent so I put "no" :smile:

That is what i got. However - me being me - i put yes, eventhough it was oviously NO

Reply 54

TheConfusedMedic

Original post by starstudent7

What did you get for the bearings question, I got 120km. :smile:

Also for the question with a white rectangle inside a large rectangle? :smile:

I think I got 90km (if that was the one with the 2 boats). And for the rectangle I got 180 :smile:

Reply 55

AlexMB9

To clear it up these were the answers for the harder questions

The CosA was 132 degrees. (using reverse of cosine rule by re-arranging it)
Algebraic fractions was -0.78 and -2.78
The guy was too tall for the tent (can't remember what I exactly did, think using pythagoras)
Similar shapes one I forgot kappa, I know I got it wrong but scale factor to power of 3 is what you shoulda used according to surina
Histogram was nice and simple.
The area of the 40x^2 was easy, just divide it by 8 to get the 5x^2 area.
The 49c^2-d^2 was using the method of (7c+d)(7c-d) where -7cd and +7cd cancel each other out nicely.
For the bread types, you know there were ratios of 10 across the breads, 6:1:3, so 130/10 = 13, and then just do 6x13 e.t.c
Simultaneous equations = 20 and 12
Boats was 90km

Hope this clears it up with some of you guys :smile:

(edited 7 years ago)

Reply 56

Miz9

Original post by KomradeKorbyn

I also rounded it like you guys and so did the two people from my school who i asked, pretty sure it must be right then. It's not like rounding .5 down is really 'wrong', it's just non standard.