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Wouldn't necessarily call any of the school courses "fun" but at least 4U had the potential for some of the questions to be interesting. Higher mathematics is a lot more "fun" because there is room for creativity and originality.
 

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Though what do you do with tan260?
 

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Hmm, I seem to be having a lot of trouble with these. How did you guys learn how to do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of trigonometry?
 

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Find the values of m for which the equation 4x^2-mx+9=0 has real roots.

^Need help
 

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You have real roots when the disriminant is greater than or equal to zero...

<a href="http://www.codecogs.com/eqnedit.php?latex=\Delta =m^2-4(4)(9) \\ \Delta \geq 0\\ \therefore m^2-144\geq 0" target="_blank"><img src="http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?\Delta =m^2-4(4)(9) \\ \Delta \geq 0\\ \therefore m^2-144\geq 0" title="\Delta =m^2-4(4)(9) \\ \Delta \geq 0\\ \therefore m^2-144\geq 0" /></a>

You can solve the rest :)
 

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x^2+(k+6)x-2k=0 Find the discriminant.

This is my working out

(k+6)^2-4(1)(-2k)

k^2+12k+36-4+8k

k^2+20k+32=0 <-Is this the discriminant?
 

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x^2+(k+6)x-2k=0 Find the discriminant.

This is my working out

(k+6)^2-4(1)(-2k)

k^2+12k+36-4+8k

k^2+20k+32=0 <-Is this the discriminant?
Check your working out in this line.
 

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Find the values of k for which the quad eqn x^2-(k+3)x+(k+6)=0

My working
(K+3)^2-4(1)(K+6)
k^2+6k+9-4k-24
K^2+2k-15
(k+5)(k-3)

Answers are -5,3

Right/wrong?
 
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Find the values of k for which the quad eqn x^2-(k+3)x+(k+6)=0

My working
(K+3)^2-4(1)(K=6)
k^2+6k+9-4k-24
K^2+2k-15
(k+5)(k-3)

Answers are -5,3

Right/wrong?
Not quite, you have to use the quadratic equation to solve for x.

Then make the inside of the square root (from the quadratic equation) > or equal to 0.

You just found the values of K such that the quadratic eqn has 1 real root.
 

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Not quite, you have to use the quadratic equation to solve for x.

Then make the inside of the square root (from the quadratic equation) > or equal to 0.

You just found the values of K such that the quadratic eqn has 1 real root.
I'm not sure if I follow :/
 

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I'm not sure if I follow :/
You had the discriminant, but you let it = 0 and solved for values of k.

When the discriminant = 0, you find a quadratic equation with 1 real root.

If discriminant is > 0, you look for values of k such that it has real roots.

So you are solving the equation:
(k + 5)(k - 3) > 0
 

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