Material created by students working with the School of Mathematics, Statistics & Physics E-Learning Unit at Newcastle University over the summer of 2017, to support students making the transition from school to university.

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Substitute values into formulas 6 years, 6 months ago

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I've changed the definition of x2 to make sure the sales are always non-negative.

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Expand brackets and collect like terms 6 years, 6 months ago

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I've fixed part h - I was missing a plus-or-minus in the matching pattern.

J. Richard Snape commented on Substitute values into formulas 6 years, 7 months ago

Part (b) uses the random variable n={0..4}, but that can give negative sales in a year which doesn't make much sense.  I think that the variable definition has been copied over from a different word type question and should actually be allowed to run {2..5}

J. Richard Snape commented on Expand brackets and collect like terms 6 years, 7 months ago

Thanks for this fantastic question set in "Transition to University".  I'm trialling using them in my teaching this year.  I have a tiny problem with part h in this question - for some reason when I use it when a student enters a correct answer it marks it wrong, giving feedback that it can be further simplified.  I attach a screenshot - not sure what rule is triggering this as even the 419 constant is prime, so I can't see any further gathering of terms possible.  I'll try to debug myself, but any help would be appreciated :)  It seems to be using "all" for simplification in the marking, but so are other parts in this question that work fine.

Chanselvie Dimuene on Percentages and ratios - box of chocolates 6 years, 7 months ago

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Chris Graham commented on Calculate the measures of central tendency for a sample 6 years, 8 months ago

Moved the list of answers into a table, to make the formatting more consistent with similar questions.

Christian Lawson-Perfect published Consumer mathematics 6 years, 8 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Consumer mathematics 6 years, 8 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect published Probability 6 years, 8 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Probability 6 years, 8 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect created Probability 6 years, 8 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Calculate measures of central tendency and spread 6 years, 8 months ago

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Chris Graham commented on Solve a linear equation $ax+b = cx+d$ 6 years, 8 months ago

Turned into a gapfill to be consistent with a similar question in this set.

Christian Lawson-Perfect published Presenting data 6 years, 8 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect published Data collection 6 years, 8 months ago