AIBU to ask for help with a Math problem?

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DS is doing a distance learning Maths A-Level. He has been staring at this maths problem for the past few hours, unable to make sense of it. He has the answer but can't work out how the problem is to be solved. I have attached a photo of the Maths problem.

Can anyone throw any light on how this Maths problem can be solved?

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

I think setting fire to it would be a good start.

I clicked on this thread as I thought I was pretty good at maths. Clearly not.

Good luck op!

Type it in google

I think you’re missing the question. There must be something more surely?

Has he been asked to plot/sketch the function?

There must be more to this question. Is there an instruction above it? It looks like this is question (h) so is there an instruction above (a)..(g)?

So this is (h) in a series of (x,y), so what is the question?

Forgot to say he needs to convert it into a Cartesian equation and write the new ranges for X and y

I consider myself intelligent and am currently training to be a pharmacist, but that question?

I agree with PP, set it alight and pretend it never existed.

Would this converter tool help www.symbolab.com/solver/cartesian-calculator

Ah ok! So he needs to rearrange both the equations into the form theta=....

Then he can equate the two and rearrange to get y=.....

Then he can sub theta into the original equation to get the range

Rearrange to get cos theta = x-1 and sin theta = y- 3
Then square both and add together. Use the fact that sin squared plus cos squared equals 1
1 = (x-1)2 + (y-3)2

that's a bog standard question, should be numerous similar examples in his textbook to practice on

Thank you all so much for your inputs.

@TorysSuckRevokeArticle50 Thank you for that link. DS is off to check it out.

@StrawberryPi Thank you so much for that. DS is looking at your advice now. He thinks that he had tackled the problem in the method you have described. However, the answer he gets when he does it is not the answer given as the correct one in his learning materials. He has asked me if I can ask you what answer you would calculate for this question. He is wondering if the answer he has been given in his learning materials could be incorrect.

Canoo Thank you! I will show him your post!

my long-standing nightmare has come true...I can no longer understand English...

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Gosh that question is scary.

I did maths A level 30 years ago and spend a lot of my working life in data analysis so thought I would be able to help.

Clearly not.

runninguphills It's completely undecipherable to me!

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Canoo I agree with you, it is a standard equation of a circle question, centre (1,3) radius 1.

So what is the answer?

Canoo posted it 46 mins ago

Yep, I can’t follow.

#schoolflashback

I look at my sons Y7 maths now and I cry.. I knew my brain would go into meltdown once I clicked on the pic