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Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...motives in deciding whether to buy or rent? Are house prices too high – in other words, what is ‘affordability’ and how is it measured? If you buy, what are the total costs and some pitfalls to watch out for? What determines the level of house prices and makes them change? Along the way, you will be introduced to two financial tools: a mortgage calculator, which can...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...motivate customers’ purchase intentions. To test this claim, the team plan to survey 1,000 customers. We need to determine the decision rule at a 99% confidence level to accept the market research team’s claim. Use the textbox below to show your calculations. Answer Step 1:Define the Hypotheses H0: μ ≤ 50% (Customers are persuaded by price discounts of 50% or less)...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...motivations behind his creation. As you’ll see, issues related to language have played a central part in the creation of the character, but in rather subtle ways. The humour comes from his observations of how people in his hometown speak, both in terms of their accents and turns of phrase. He then mixes this with slightly incongruous examples of language play – rhymes...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...motivated aid to developing peoples need to be regulated globally, this is best achieved through interstate coordination. We should value an international society of sovereign states whose interaction is based on the principle of non-interference. As maintained by the communitarian position, human rights cannot be defined universally because they only have meaning in...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...et cetera. It was strange, because they didn’t look any much different than they did from the rocks on Earth at first glance. But it’s when you look at it closely with a microscope that you see that there’s distinct differences. Probably 95% of the minerals are quite similar to what we have on Earth, but almost every lunar sample has metallic iron in it. On Earth,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...et al. (2003). What was the difference in average beak size of all adults before the drought in 1977 and the average beak size of adults that survived the drought? Before the drought, the average size of adult beaks was 9.2 mm. The average beak size of adults that survived was 9.9 mm. Explain how the average beak size of birds changed from before the drought in 1977 to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...et cetera and how you want to dip into those. It's also really important, I think, at the start when you're looking at how much, you need to consider any debt that you have. Using your 25% tax free cash that you can take from your pension can be a really good way to pay off that debt as you head into retirement. The second step is then to work out how you're going to fund...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...et al., 2003). Fine-tuning of the breathing pattern is controlled by inputs from the pontine respiratory group (Figure 16). Information from stretch receptors in the lungs is also used by the respiratory centres to determine when the lungs have expanded to full capacity. Some neurodegenerative diseases, such as motor neurone disease, are characterised by respiratory...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs