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Year 10 Div 3T Algebra answers

Here are the answers for you to check your HW:

4a) 6x^2/5

4b) 3/8

4c) 2(2x-1)/(3x-1)

5a) 5/8

5b) 5/4

5c) 8/3

Mr Burford AS maths

I hope you have enjoyed your holidays. Remember you have some homework to hand in on Tuesday (4th November).

I’ve been over exercise (d) in the last hour – some hints; it will help if you can find where a straight line passes both the x axis (when y=0) and the y axis (when x=0) and [...]

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Year 11 into 12 Transition Booklet – Answers

Attached here are the answers for the Exercises in the Year 11 into 12 Transition Booklet. Word of warning: the book they are from is slightly notorious for little errors, so if you’re totally convinced your answer is right, you might well be!

We’ll be going over what you’ve done in the next few days, and [...]

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Mr Riedel’s Year 8 class – Pythagoras’ Theorem

Click here for notes from our lesson today.

Homework is to do questions 1 to 5 from exercise 21H on page 413. Since we are going to Box Hill on Friday, please bring this work to Thursday’s lesson. If you have any difficulties, leave a comment or come to see me before the deadline.

Mr Riedel’s Year 8 class

2008_04_08_draw_graph_from_equation3 - Click the link for the final notes on Curved Graphs.

Click for the first lesson on Volume.

2008_04_10_volume2 - Click the link for the second lesson on Volume.

Fatima, I would like you to attempt questions 4 and 5 from exercise 14D on page 288. As well as the notes you might like to look at the example [...]

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Mr Riedel’s Year 7 class – Directed numbers in Formulae

Click on 2008_04_08_directed_numbers_in_formulae to see the notes from our lesson today.

Homework is to do all four parts from question 12 from exercise 17M on page 336. Hand your books in tomorrow for marking please.

Mr Riedel’s Year 12 Core class – Transformation of Trig functions

Click here to see the notes from our lesson.

Homework is from Exercise 8G on page 125, question 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6.

Mr Riedel’s Year 8 class – Conversion graphs

Click here for the notes from today’s session. Remember to complete the graph and associated questions from question 6 before the first lesson next week (Tuesday).

Mr Riedel’s Year 7 class – Directed Numbers

Click here for the work we covered this morning.

Remember to complete the homework, all of which can be done using a calculator, as we will be using this work to help build a set of rules in our next lesson. To remind you, it is to do questions 10 to 17 and 22 to 29 from [...]

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Mr Riedel’s Year 9 class – Harder simultaneous equations

Click here to see how simultaneous equations occasionally need rearranging before they can be solved.

Homework is from page 220, questions 8 and 9. Bring your solutions to class tomorrow.