That isn't funny, at all. It is real and very sad.
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Neither funny nor remotely real. Pretty insulting to teachers and young people and rather horribly racist too. Here are some actual Maths questions used in recent GCSE papers:
Three of the following points lie on the same straight line. Which point does not lie on this line?
(-2, 14)
(-1, 8)
(1, -1)
(2, -6)
Here is a sequence: 90 82 74 66 58. What is the expression for the nth term of the sequence?
Find the factors of x3−7x−6
Billy wants to buy these tickets for a show: 4 adult tickets at £15 each and 2 child tickets at £10 each. A 10% booking fee is added to the ticket price. 3% is then added for paying by credit card. Work out the total charge for these tickets when paying by credit card.
And some A level questions:
(a) Find the first four terms, in ascending powers of x, of the binomial expansion of (1+8x) giving each term in simplest form.
(b) Explain how you could use x = 1/32 in the expansion to find an approximation for the square root of 5
Relative to a fixed origin O
● point A has position vector 2i + 5j − 6k
● point B has position vector 3i − 3j − 4k
● point C has position vector 2i − 16j + 4k
Find AB
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Show that quadrilateral OABC is a trapezium, giving reasons for your answer.
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