davidgoes4wce Useful Maths Ext 1 Questions & Textbook Errata 2015-2016 (1 Viewer)

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Re: Mistakes from Text Book Thread

Good thing you made this as a thread so that all errors are documented in one place. Do you think you'll eventually go back through your old Marathon posts where you posted other errors and transfer them to here too?
 

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Good thing you made this as a thread so that all errors are documented in one place. Do you think you'll eventually go back through your old Marathon posts where you posted other errors and transfer them to here too?
Nah I have a life mate! :jump:

I have a rule, once I do a question , I don't redo that question again unless a specific student requests that I go through it again with them.
 

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Re: Mistakes from Text Book Thread

Sometimes it is good to review or redo the challenging Q's.
 

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Re: Mistakes from Text Book Thread

Another mistake on Dr Max Shurs' book:

Q2h of the same page:


The answer has: 9x^2+(3/2x^(3/2))



Thats my working out, 3 mistakes on the same page and we all thought Grove was bad!
 

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Re: Mistakes from Text Book Thread

I think there is a mistake in Q4 as well.

The solution has:
x+2y-1=0 at x=1
and x-2y+1=0 at x=-1


I had something along the lines of this:





Would be good if somebody could confirm.
 

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Re: Mistakes from Text Book Thread

I spotted a Mistake in Max Shur book tonight Q2a and Q2e are wrong



Yeah dude, I've done some of that book before, the same one, Understanding Math, and albeit the fact that I'm finding it really helpful, I too have noticed a few mistakes.

I remember this really hard Trigonometry question, and the answer was a mistake...

Just a thumbs up.
Cheers.
 

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Re: Mistakes from Text Book Thread

I think there is a mistake in Q4 as well.

The solution has:
x+2y-1=0 at x=1
and x-2y+1=0 at x=-1


I had something along the lines of this:





Would be good if somebody could confirm.


 

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Re: Mistakes from Text Book Thread

My bad it should have been 4x^3-2x, I used the product rule but added wrong. I have no excuses, it was carelessness.
 

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Re: Mistakes from Text Book Thread

But I did Q6 and I think there is a mistake with the solution:

This was the question:



This was the solution in the textbook:
 

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My working out for the solution:

Since we just want the slope of the tangent, we don't need to figure out the entire equation of the tangent. We can just sub. the x-value into the equation for dy/dx to get the slope.
 

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Re: Mistakes from Text Book Thread

Mistake in the Cambridge 2 Unit Enhanced textbook from Bill Pender, David Sadler , Julia Shea and Derek Ward.




The Amount owed should have be written as:



Still unsure about the instalment statments, whether they are right or wrong.
 

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