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Undergrad Sum of an Alternating Series
High School Why Is My Quadratic Equation Conversion Incorrect?
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MHB Physics-Using vectors to find the components
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MHB Rational trigonometric expression show tan^218°⋅tan^254°∈Q
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MHB Powerful equation 5^m+7^n=k^3.
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MHB What is Kayleen's current age if she will be four times older in 20 years?
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MHB Find the Total Cost for X Cards Bought | Help Writing an Equation
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Undergrad Simplified imaginary unit to the power of imaginary unit
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MHB How Old is Bill Crowe Today Based on the Given Age Problem?
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MHB How much would Mrs. Baker pay for 8 pounds of bananas?
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MHB What is the cost of ten bananas and ten pears?
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Undergrad Finding formula for nth term in sequence
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MHB Calculate Equilibrium Constant of 2BrCl <=> Br2 + Cl2
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MHB Gay-Lussac's Law of combining volumes
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High School Understanding Negative Exponents and Bases in Algebraic Expressions
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Insights How to Tell Operations, Operators, Functionals, and Representations Apart
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MHB Can you find the two numbers?
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MHB How Can I Efficiently Cut Wood Boards of Different Lengths?
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MHB Solve the equation 8x^2−2xy^2=6y=3x^2+3x^3y^2
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MHB We can find 3 scholars talking together (using one common language)
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Graduate How did Saccheri prove Euclid's Fifth Postulate?
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MHB Questions regarding writing equations when given graphs
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MHB Violet's Trigonometry Questions via Facebook
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MHB Uniform rods and disk in static equilibrium
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High School Does anybody write any operations differently?
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MHB Evaluate (without a calculator) the product: f(r1+1)⋅f(r2+1)⋅f(r3+1).
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High School Volume of a Cube: Definition & Explanation
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What is that indicator/math symbol?
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High School Interview with Karen E. Smith (Mathematician at U-M)
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MHB S10.03.25 Write complex number in rectangular form
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Undergrad Arm reaching algorithm determine angles
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MHB Find All Trig Functions of Gamma Given cot(gamma)=4/3
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High School What does the Ramanujan Summation of ζ(−1) = −1/12 represent precisely?
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High School Is the Rotation Method Accurate for Drawing an Archimedean Spiral?
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MHB Find the minimum a^4+b^4+c^4−3abc
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MHB The distance from AB = BC. AB = x^2 and BC = 9. Find AC.
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High School The Square of the Sum Formula and real world scenarios
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MHB Prove that n is not divisible by 105.
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Undergrad Is my classification of transcendental correct?
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Undergrad Are there any other occurrences of these interesting equalities?
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MHB Find Min Value of Expression: $\prod_{i=1}^{2017}x_i$
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MHB Calculating On-Costs: USD 10 Gross Salary
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MHB Negative numbers with fraction problem: simplify 3/4 [ 5/6 ( -18/25 ) + 1/2 ]
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MHB Prove a^2_1+3a^2_2+5a^2_3+....+(2n−1)a^2_n≤1
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MHB We can find two irrational numbers x and y to make xy rational,true or false
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Graduate Find positive integer solutions to a/(b+c)+b/(a+c)+c/(a+b)=4
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High School What does the notation in measuring the spins of two electrons mean?
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MHB Can You Prove the GCD Inequality for Natural Numbers?
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High School Visual Pattern Recognition Test
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High School What's the difference? "Types" of Algebra, etc
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News RIP Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani
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MHB How Does Dilute Sulfuric Acid Affect the Titration of Ammonium Iron(II) Sulfate?
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MHB Proving a Fraction Inequality of Sin and Cos | $\pi/2$
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MHB Solve $\sin(\alpha + \beta)$: Answer #41
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MHB Natural Numbers with Repeating Digits: Solving for Perfect Squares
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Graduate Relation between Sparse Primes and Curse of Dimensionality?
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MHB Find cos(x) and sin(x) if angle x has these properties....
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MHB Construct a segment x satisfying the equation :1/x−2/a+3/(x+a)=0
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Undergrad What does"double-infinities" mean?
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Graduate Do Sci-Hub Downloads Correlate with Citations in INSPIRE-HEP Data?
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MHB Can 16 Players Have 6 Partners Each in a Circular Interaction?
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MHB Find n in A=(108.5)^n+(147.5)^n
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MHB Prove x^31+x^32+x^33+x^34+x^35=n has an integer solution for any integer n.
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MHB Finding $\angle PCA$ in Triangle ABC with $\angle ANB = 90^\circ$
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MHB Inequality - find the largest K in (a+b+c+d)^2≥Kbc
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High School Great Magic Triangle Math Puzzle
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High School (Proof) Two right triangles are congruent.
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Undergrad Arbirtary Extraction of Primes - From Ideal Fractal(s)?
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MHB How can you solve this equation using an alternate method?
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MHB Prove the trig inequality ∑α∈{A,B,C}1/[1+sin(α/2)]≥2
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MHB Find the minimal value |ac−b|≤b
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MHB AB=AC,∠ABD=60°,∠ADB=70°,∠BDC=40°,find∠DBC
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MHB Show Equivalence of AB Parallel to XY | Wondering
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High School Help with PreCalc: Sum/Difference Identities
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MHB Solving $y>0$ given $[y]^2=y\times(y)$ and Proving Inequalities
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MHB Set of 2015 Consecutive Positive Ints with 15 Primes
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MHB A=1×3×5×7+3×5×7×9+5×7×9×11+−−−+(2n−3)×(2n−1)×(2n+1)×(2n+3)
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MHB Solve the cubic equation 4u^3+3u−3=0
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MHB Possibilities for the side and angle of the triangle
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MHB Show Triangle ABC Similarity Type Independence of B,C
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Undergrad Visualizing Solid Angle of a 3d Object (say a Sphere)
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Insights Can Angles be Assigned a Dimension? - Comments
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MHB Challenge: Is cos(pi/60) transcendental?
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MHB 7.t.27 Write an equation for a sinusoidal graph with the following properties:
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High School How to build an equation or expression?
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MHB High school inequality |2−(−1)n−l|≥a
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MHB Trigonometric Product Challenge sin(π/m)sin(2π/m)sin(3π/m)⋯sin(m−1)π/m=m/2^(m−1)
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MHB Finding the Equation of a Parabola
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MHB Solving Algebraic Inequality with $n$ Positive Real Numbers
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MHB What is the value of Angle BMC in Triangle ABC?
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MHB How many days will it take B to finish the remaining work?
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Undergrad What Is the Minimal Number of Clusters With Shared Descriptors?
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High School What is the process for finding the LCD of rational expressions and equations?
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MHB Numerical Analysis problem Newton's method
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MHB Pythagorean Theorem: Unexpected Finding
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MHB Why isn't {0}^{3}+{0}^{3}={0}^{3} a proof for Fermat's Last Theorem?
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MHB Oxidation-Reduction in 2Ca + O2 -> 2CaO Reaction
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Undergrad Mathematics/AI and a School Cheating
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MHB Success: Solving #17 and #22 - A Guide
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