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U know... the topics you havent touched since year 11... maybe some of the little things u have forgotten and one look at the equation wood have got u through


like i mean... i looked at afew past trials and there was division of a line and stuff - and i was like "wholy crap" coodnt remember it... took 2 seconds and it was back in the head...

and sequences and series etc

what else?
 

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my teacher asked us to prove something that was false, which was quite unexpected.
Another one was a question that asked about the horizontal distance travelled by a projectile, but not from the origin (misread the question :( )
 

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we got too many dumb little questions that took up too much time ...
i totally was freaking out for shm and full studied it..did all excercises and got them right.... and wen it came to the exam.. i left the whole section out .. BAHHH
i didnt end up finishing my test....
there was a ratio division one.. where we had to fill in the blanks for a sentence... bahh this is maths not english...

eg. the line AB was divided in the ratio of ___ by P
etc et c
GRR
 

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one that threw a lot of people in my school was proving that odd functions pass through the origin. then the second part of the question was to show that x is a factor of odd functions.
 

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Originally posted by stag_j
one that threw a lot of people in my school was proving that odd functions pass through the origin. then the second part of the question was to show that x is a factor of odd functions.
how do u do that?:confused:
 

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hmm x is not a factor of odd functions, only odd polynomials of degree 1 or over.

y=sin(x) is odd..
 

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Originally posted by Affinity
hmm x is not a factor of odd functions, only odd polynomials of degree 1 or over.

y=sin(x) is odd..
:D you just take words out of my mouth... ;)

anyway, on the serious note...i saw this question in the cambridge 3u text book somewhere so thats why i asked...but they didn't ask about the fact that x, is a factor of odd functions.:rolleyes:
 

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well for the first part of the question, proving that odd functions pass through the origin:
using f(-a)=-f(a):
f(0)=-f(0)
2f(0)=0
therefore f(0)=0

part two, showing that x is a factor of odd functions:
since 0 is a root of odd functions, then (x-0) is a factor, so x is a factor... im pretty sure that is all there was to it. i don't have my paper back yet but i should on monday so i can tell you exactly - i know i got it right at least.
 

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