[B'Day]

GCSE students are still talking about a "particularly tricky" maths GCSE paper which led to the hashtag #edexcelmaths trending on Twitter.
Thousands of students who took the maths paper on Thursday (4 June) suffered that horrible moment when almost nothing you've revised comes up.
And their reactions to the paper have been getting lots of love online.
In particular a question about Hannah eating sweets seemed really difficult.
We've been talking to some of the people who took the exam.
"My class are all predicted A/A*s, but we feel after yesterday's paper we will not get anywhere near it," says Ém, one pupil who sat the test.






"There was one person in the exam hall who was crying their eyes out during the exam."
Another student who spoke to Newsbeat anonymously agrees. She says: "I found the exam bearable at the beginning but then it took a sharp turn to maths that was way too hard.
"I can't remember the numbers, but the one about Hannah's sweets in particular made me want to cry."
Meanwhile, Danny tells us: "Because of Hannah and her sweets, I have failed my maths GCSE. And it wasn't helped by Mary's inability to work out how much she can spend on tiles for her conservatory."

How to answer the question + read funny tweets is at the source:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/articl...d-to-answer-it

Poor students though. I did maths GCSE (same exam board is this one) and passed

[brIt-()nstar]

Bye! Is that even math?

[Javan]

I don't remember getting anything like that in the paper and I did higher maths

[dannyboy]

Bye, the one with the sweets is easy

[eddytws]

They don't teach basic probability in the UK? It's easy as hell.

[GreasyBruce]

This thread just makes me grateful that I'm not in high school anymore

[Poe Dameron]

You just factorise it using a quadratic equation. It ain't that hard

[Retro]

Ffff. I might be dusty on my algebra but give me like 5 minutes and I could get that **** worked out. They're acting like they had to do high level calc **** or something.

[Tymps.]

(n-10)(n+9)

Right?

EDIT: Wait, nevermind. But it still isn't THAT hard

[Javan]

Originally posted by Goddess of Love.

You just factorise it using a quadratic equation. It ain't that hard

Oh wait! I vaguely remember this now. I was in the top maths class so we learnt how to do this

I don't think this is a calculator paper tho. Otherwise I don't see the point of having the sweets introduction.

[Javan]

Originally posted by Tymps.

(n-10)(n+9)

Right?

Ohhhhh. You're right. You don't need a calculator for this. God I've forgotten so much

[TaylorFantasy]

this is actually quite easy but I'm just gonna say it's hard in hope that they will lower the passing mark and so more candidates can pass

[RihannaRTT]

Lemme see...

Yellow Sweets: n-6

n2 - n - 90 = 0

I mean P(AB) = P(A) * P(B)
so that would mean for 1/3, u could say P(A) = 6/n and P(B) = 5/(n-1)
so 6/n * 5/(n-1) = 1/3
therefore 30/n^2-n = 1/3
90 = n^2-n
0 = n^2 - n - 90

same as initial function so yeah, proven, difficult but do-able.

[6 Apple St]

Dammit Hannah

[TaylorFantasy]

They... Uh... Actually want you to show the steps to the equation n^2-n-90=0

[TaylorFantasy]

Originally posted by RihannaRTT

Lemme see...

Yellow Sweets: n-6

n2 - n - 90 = 0

I mean P(AB) = P(A) * P(B)
so that would mean for 1/3, u could say P(A) = 6/n and P(B) = 5/(n-1)
so 6/n * 5/(n-1) = 1/3
therefore 30/n^2-n = 1/3
90 = n^2-n
0 = n^2 - n - 90

same as initial function so yeah, proven, difficult but do-able.

[Haus]

...that's it? That's the whole problem? I was expecting there to be a part B and C. Part A is easy.

[Codex]

(6/n)*(5/n-1) = 1/3

90 = n*(n-1)

0 = n^2 - n - 90

Literally the most basic probability they could give...

[6 Apple St]

I was a year behind in math. This thread confuses me.

[jpow]

Not that hard