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    I Need Help With This Maths Question Please - Quadratic Equations

    depends on what you want.. if you want a polynomial, it's the lagrange polynomial (check wiki) t = 11[(x-1)(x-2)(x-3)]/6 - 6[(x-1)(x-2)(x-4)]/2 + 3[(x-1)(x-3)(x-4)]/2 - 2[(x-2)(x-3)(x-4)]/6 works out to be t = x^2 - 2x + 3 if you know it's a quadratic, you have t = ax^2 +bx + c in...
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    Blocking Sites

    yeah .. it's easy. Read your router manual if you use one
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    tuxedos

    tails, white tie
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    Uni Possible?

    Probably won't get you into Law at Usyd.. but Uni shouldn't be a problem. Your subjects are fine... high 90s are quite achievable with those subjects (provided one gets high band 6s for each subject)
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    can assesment marks be excluded as outliers

    they could but there's no official policy on that
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    random question

    well, near 0, the numerator is roughly log(N)*x....
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    random question

    the limit is log(N) doesn't look like 2 unit
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    Starting at q8?

    Anything fancy is probably bad.
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    Simple(?) conics question..

    Yours is wrong... it's sqrt(4-3)/2 = 1/2 OP: foci are at (+/- 1,0)
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    how do you appraoch a question which is unapproachable ??

    Stare at it til you figure out how to do it
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    Olympiad Math Camp

    Take a proper summer holiday?
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    Olympiad Math Camp

    the december camp is slightly less intense than the april one. don't have that sheet .. but it's usually a mix between AMC like questions and AIMO. It's more raw aptitude that they are looking for rather than knowledge. That said many people does have substantial background. occasionally there...
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    probability hsc qns 2003 qns 4c)

    Dodgy solution.. here's probably what the author of that solution was thinking and what was wrong with that.. the author was trying to calculate P(atleast 1 not chosen) by P(1 chosen) + P(2 chosen) + ... + P(n-1 chosen) The precise and correct interpretation is P(exactly 1 chosen) +...
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    Olympiad Math Camp

    You learn quite a bit... before you go to the camp you get a set of 30ish questions so you have a feel of the standards required. you start each morning with a 4 hour AMO/IMO like test.. except the first day, which is an AIME (multiple choice, 999 choices for eqach question). then classes run...
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    serial and parallel ports

    serial transmission works by sending data bit by bit over the same wire.. parallel transmission sends a few bits at the same time thorugh different wires. generally serial ports require some additional hardware or software flow control. parallel connection are generally cheaper.... and they...
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    Inequalities

    Done correctly -> yes. In particular, with inequalities.. they usually want you to prove that LHS < RHS where LHS and RHS depends on some parameter(s) say x. so the statement they want you to prove is for all x, LHS(x) < RHS(x) to prove it by contradiction, you would first assume that...
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    Inequalities

    integral [0 to y] x^(4n+2) = 1/(4n+3) y^(4n+3) assuming y <=1 allows you to conclude that it is less than 1/(4n+3)
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    1995 + 1996 Past HSC Mechanics questions

    helps if you post the questions. for the 2nd one.. the key is to notice that 2 - 1/(n+1) > 2 - 1/n + 1/(n+1)^2 it's not that hard to prove by rearranging, noting that n(n+1) > (n+1)^2. you can also prove the inequality by noting that the sum is less than 1+ integral[1 to n] 1/x^2 dx by...
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    Inequalities

    helps if you post the question. You integrate the result from part 2 with limits 0 to y. the condition >= 0 is to ensure the integral does not flip signs andthe condition <= 1 is there to allow you to estimate the last bit.
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    B. Commerce - Halp

    +1 There's a good reason for a higher UAI for syd and UNSW, especially when UNSW is at a relatively less convennient location than UTS.
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