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Algebra review
The algebra skills every Year 11 Maths Advanced topic depends on: expanding, factoring, algebraic fractions, quadratic equations and simultaneous equations.
Sections
- 1A Expanding brackets Like terms, the distributive law, expanding binomial products and the three special expansions: perfect squares and the difference of squares.
- 1B Factoring Factor any expression using the four methods in order: highest common factor, difference of squares, quadratic trinomials (monic and non-monic) and grouping.
- 1C Algebraic fractions Simplify, add, subtract, multiply and divide algebraic fractions, and simplify compound fractions, by factoring first.
- 1D Solving quadratic equations Three ways to solve a quadratic equation (factoring, completing the square and the quadratic formula) and how to choose between them.
- 1E Simultaneous equations Solve pairs of equations by substitution and elimination, including a line meeting a parabola, and see each solution as an intersection point.