GCSE maths question leaves people on Reddit scratching their heads
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA GCSE maths question about a boy catching rabbits in the woods has left people puzzled. But would you be able to answer it?
It's exam season, and students up and down the country are knuckling down and revising. It's a stressful time for teenagers, with the first exams having started on Monday May 6 and most of them not wrapping up until on or before Friday June 21.
One person took to Reddit to highlight what many mistook for a 'trick question' in a Maths past paper. Posting a screenshot of the question to the r/GCSE subreddit, the user wrote: "Right who's making these questions". READ MORE: The park 30 minutes from Manchester with its own free zoo The head-scratcher comes from a 2022 Pearson Edexcel GCSE higher maths paper.
It sets out the problem: "Albie is studying the population of rabbits in a wood. One day, he catches 55 rabbits and finds that 40 of these rabbits are marked with a tag. "Albie estimates there are 50 rabbits in the wood.
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