MAT - Paper 2018 - Q6


Flashcards

2021-10-28

If you are told “$m$ is the smallest natural number such that $\frac{1}{m} \le q$”, how could you formalise this mathematically?


\[\frac{1}{m-1} > q\]

What trick comes up a lot in dealing with inequalities?


Coming up with two separate inequalities with a shared term and sticking them together.

What’s a trick for approximating something like $\frac{3}{13}$?


Taking the reciprocal and considering what numbers it is sandwiched between.

If
\[4 < \frac{13}{3} < 5\]

what is

\[\frac{3}{13}\]

between??

\[\frac{1}{5} < \frac{3}{13} < \frac{1}{4}\]



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