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    Traveling to different Universes?

    using strings anything is possible !
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    Solve System with Matrices: Finding Unique Solutions for k Values

    I really don't know what a unique solution is. One of the answers it gives in the answers section is k cannot equal 4, which is the restriction should there be a solution to the system, if k = 4 detA = 0. So if k=4 means the system has no unique solutions, what does it mean if it does have...
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    Solve System with Matrices: Finding Unique Solutions for k Values

    For the 2nd question, if nonuniqueness equates to there being no solution, the that is easy, k = 4, but for a unique solution, could not that be anything but for in the field of k?
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    Solve System with Matrices: Finding Unique Solutions for k Values

    this is not some independant study topic. This is from a practice booklet the teacher gave us, a question which the tacher recomnded we do. So, my current knowledge should suffice in answering this question. What I know: -determinants -inverses -simple...
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    Solve System with Matrices: Finding Unique Solutions for k Values

    I do not know what a unique solution is, nor have I ever heard the term nonhomogenous.
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    Solve System with Matrices: Finding Unique Solutions for k Values

    I know how to determine the determinant, and the inverse, and how to sovle a system with the inverse of a matrice, but I have no idea what these two questions are talking about: 1. Find the values of k for which the system kx+2y=1 3x+(k-1)y=1 does not have a unique solution. If k does not...
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    Physics Math skills required to be a career physicist?

    yes, but back to my original question...
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    Physics Math skills required to be a career physicist?

    I have aspirations of becoming a physicist. I absolutely love physics and pure mathematics; I am fascinated by both fields. I am only concerned with the required mathematical abilities to be able to become a competent physicist. I am not amazingly good at math, I would put myself in the lower...
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    Finding the Value of m and k to Reach an Average of 7.3

    I am doing a unit on such systems in math. I do not see a solution that does not involve simplifying the equation you have and solving with the equations the answers suggest and seeing which one works out.
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    Fermat's Theorem: A Math Problem and the Smart Boy Who Proved It Wrong

    from: http://www.math.utah.edu/~cherk/puzzles.html I am stumped, I noticed the pattern in the digits of the numbers, but I do not see how I can link that to the possibility of forming such a statement with those numbers when n is greater than 2.
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    Principle Angles: Am I on the Right Track?

    I do not quite get what principle angle angles are. Are they the smallest positive coterminal angle of an angle? Would the principle angles of: 1000 degrees be 280 degrees -500 degrees be 220 degrees ? Am I on the right track?
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    Solving a Tower Height with Cosine Law

    Question: A man is looking at the top of a tower. The angle of elevation to the top of the tower is 10 degrees. 100m closer to the tower, a man has an angle of elevation to the top of the tower of 20 degrees, how tall is the tower? My Problem: I can solve this ver easily by recognizing...
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    What is the Domain and Range of y=2(3^x)-1?

    Yes, you are almost right. Your only error was saying y could equal -1. It's y > -1. Also, would not the horizontal asymptote be y=-1? And yes, the x-int is roughly equal to -0.63, but were I you, I would come up with n exact value for the x-into algebraically.
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    What is the Domain and Range of y=2(3^x)-1?

    I was under the assumption that an asymptote was a line the function would not cross, and this function does cross the line y=0. Incorrect, there is no problem when y is less than 1
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    What is the Domain and Range of y=2(3^x)-1?

    The limit on 2 ( 3^x ) just becomes more apparent after the equation is graphed if it is not immediately obvious.
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