It does not seem a very useful form of the problem. OK I know its trying to
get people to not think in a regimented way and find the missing bits of
the puzzle from what is given, but my main annoyance at most exams, which I
always did badly at, was the meaningless unuseful problems they put in them.
Real world problems should be used in my view, as that is the situation
these people are going to use their talents in, not some ambiguously worded
meaningless problem.
Brian

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GCSE's getting harder causes Paul Dacre's head to explode.

or

"Slightly hard" GCSE Maths Question causes outrage...


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-33017299



The actual question was:

Hannah has 6 orange sweets and some yellow sweets.
Overall, she has n sweets.
The probability of her taking 2 orange sweets is 1/3.

Prove that: n^2-n-90=0

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