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Totally didn't see that way.

HSC is in one month XD.$0.05 that everyone's super speedily studying.

ill be interested to see how this yrs maths papers look, i thought last yrs maths papers were pretty different from the past hsc, particularly the 2 unit one, i miss the days when they actually had a whole Q2 dedicated to co ordinate geometry.
 

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I came up with a lot of solutions..wtf.
The ones that work are 2 and (-1 - root5) / 2

Others I came across was -1 and -1 + root5 / 2
Can you show working out?

x = 2 , y = root2
x = (-1 - root5) / 2, y = root(3-root5) / 2

please dont tell me you were guessing and checking

there is only ONE way ( im pretty sure) to do this question, how did you do it

draw a picture, there shouldnt be anymore than 2

i made this one up myself, i think i didnt make a mistake when i wrote the question lol
 
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please dont tell me you were guessing and checking

there is only ONE way ( im pretty sure) to do this question, how did you do it

draw a picture, there shouldnt be anymore than 2

i made this one up myself, i think i didnt make a mistake when i wrote the question lol
I solved it algebraicly.
Prob because I squared both sides..
 

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x+2 = (x^2 -2)^2
x+2 = x^4 -4x^2 + 4
x^4-4x^2 -x +2 = 0




Now focusing on the x^2(x+2) -1 factor..




Rewriting as a whole
= 0
Lol fucken hell. Now focusing on the x^2 + x -1
x=http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?\frac{-1\pm \sqrt{5}}{2}[/IMG[B]],-2 and 1[/B][/quote]

that was unexpected, mmm

hmmm, doesnt make sense geometrically

wrong signs for starters, now just need to think bout it little more

for you to set x^2 -2 = sqrt(x+2) , you are saying that x^2 -2 > 0

but if you use -1 + sqrt5 / 2 , you will see x^2 -2 < 0, so that solns out, now what to do about the other one
 
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lol, i was expecting someone to go

inverse functions intersection on the line y= x

hence solve x^2 -2 = x or sqrt (x+2) = x

i dont really like that 3rd soln that you found , doesnt really make sense when you sketch it, and it doesnt come out with the above method for some reason
 

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dA/dt = 4(t^3) - 12t

d^2A/dt^2 = 12(t^2) -12 = 0

t = |1|

Sorry, I've no bloody clue.

lol, its correct, just someone else stated ( correctly) that A(1) < 0, ie negative concentration lol. I just made it up similar to a past trial i had seen

i thought it was a interesting question that a few people would get stuck on , i didnt get it the first time i saw it
 

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Still doesn't work. As x--> infinity, gradient --> infinity.

But I think I know what you're looking for. Differentiating the derivative[treating it as a function] and finding it's maximum.

the concentrate in bloodstream is A, its derivative dA/ dt is the rate at which that changes , if we want it to " change most rapidly", we want to maximise dA/dt etc
 

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