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    Infinite Geometric Series Help!

    =(r^1 + r^2 + r^3 + r^4) + (r^5 + r^6 + r^7 + r^8) = (r^1 + r^2 + r^3 + r^4) + r^4(r^1 + r^2 + r^3 + r^4) = (r^4 + 1)S4 = 17S4 "[S8 - S4] = r^4 S4 = 16S4 r^4 = 16, r = +-2" is probably all I would write in an exam if you divide terms 5-8 by r^4, you get terms 1-4
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    Infinite Geometric Series Help!

    the first two lines are right, but I wouldn't bother writing it in the form you wrote it as in the 3rd line. [S8 - S4] = r^4 S4 = 16S4 is all I would do * r^1 + r^2 + r^3 + r^4 + r^5 + r^6 + r^7 + r^8 = r^1 + r^2 + r^3 + r^4 + r^4(r^1 + r^2 + r^3 + r^4) in case you still don't quite understand
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    Infinite Geometric Series Help!

    Well terms 1-8 is 17 times larger than terms 1-4. So terms [1-8 - 1-4] must be 16 times larger. If r is the common ratio, then to get from a term to the term n after it you must multiply the number by r^n. So, term 5 is r^4 times greater than term 1 ... term 8 is r^4 times greater than term 4...
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    Infinite Geometric Series Help!

    terms 5-8 are 16 times larger than terms 1-4, and also r^4 times larger. Therefore r^4 = 16, r = +-2
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    Help with Maths =]

    I would suggest not squaring both sides. Just solve for (4x-3y+2) = (3x+4y-7) and (4x-3y+2) = -(3x+4y-7), which gives you x-7y+9=0 and 7x+y-5=0.
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    LHS = RHS questions

    the sum/product identities can be easily derived by adding the right angle-sum expansions eg. sin(A+B) + sin(A-B) = sinAcosB + sinBcosA + sinAcosB - sinBcosA = 2sinAcosB so you just find the correct A and B eg sin70 + sin10 [A = 40, B = 30] = 2sin40cos30 = sqrt.3 sin40 I used this type of...
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    So Work= Kinetic Energy and........

    made enough threads on this yet? -_-
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    LHS = RHS questions

    49. is a difference of two squares, then converting 2sinXcosX into sin2X 51. Solve each pair normally, then sub in exact value of cos60 54. write cos40 as sin50. solve normally, then sub in exact value of sin30 61. let A + B = C, then get rid of the A's
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    cant't do this trig question

    have you typed that out correctly?
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    Integration

    you just find "the integral from 1->3 of [(x^2 - 5x + 5) - (-x + 2)]" ie, ∫13 [x^2 - 4x + 3]dx giving a primitive of 1/3x^3 - 2x^2 + 3x (+C) so just sub in for 1 and 3 and you get 1+1/3
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    Integration

    is it 1 + 1/3? which is (I think) the integral from 1->3 of [(x^2 - 5x + 5) - (-x + 2)]
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    2 practice questions off the AMC!!!!

    10. I don't understand what question 9 means
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    UAI Aims - Benefits of aiming high?

    Re: What UAI are you aiming for? well, for one, you could end up changing your mind about which uni course you want to do I suppose you'd probably be more likely to get >85 if your aim was 95, rather than 85 anyhow
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    Help - Physics Moving About

    if whether you wear a seat belt doesn't affect any other crash-related variables, then those statistics would suggest that you are 6 times more likely to die whilst not wearing a seat belt. However, even if you did have those statistics you couldn't make any accurate judgements about how much...
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    English is a waste of life.

    If you weren't good at/interested in those subjects then you shouldn't have chosen them. Just like how if you weren't good at/interested in English you shouldn't have... oh wait. imo if they're gonna make a subject compulsary, then, especially if it's not obvious, they should explain how it...
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    range of trigonometric functions

    the minimum of a cos function is the negative of the maxmimum (-1 and 1 respectively), you if you change the signs you end up with the same thing anyway
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    range of trigonometric functions

    the range of a sin/cos function is -1 -> 1 in this example it is 1 + 2(-1 -> 1) = -1 -> 3
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    How far are your classes through your HSC courses?

    we were only told the rules early in the year when drawing dot diagrams - we weren't expected to remember it then, so we'll be learning it again and yeah, looking in my textbook precipitation is only in the water module - we just haven't really done much specifically about water
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    Circle question

    basically just remember that the opposite angles of a cyclic quad' add to 180, and that the triangle made by two points between them is isosceles. for c)BRQ you have to use the rule that the angle from two points to the centre is twice the angle from two points to the circumference
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