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briliant maths question

  • 14-06-2010 5:56pm
    #1
    miniture
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭


    What do ye think of q 7 on the higher maths paper. talk about adding salt to the wounds of people banking on boland or longley in english


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  • #2
    zam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭zam


    Haha yeah I remember it now! :P It was like how to apply maths to your own life...

    For anyone who doesn't know, it was a question working out the probability that what a girl has studied for an English exam will come up!


  • #3
    johnmcdnl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭johnmcdnl


    hahaa i was thinkin the exact same... then i realised.. oh feck i spent a whole night trying to figure out the odds of getting my poet to come up and I couldn't do it...

    so i had to guess a few parts.. 7/20 i think was part i.. and the others i forget but I don't think there right... 1/40 was an answer i got i think... oh well

    but i couldn't help but laugh when i seen it hahaah


  • #4
    citizenerased1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 203 ✭✭citizenerased1


    love this thread :D

    cue the conspiracy theories :p


  • #5
    EuropeanSon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭EuropeanSon


    johnmcdnl wrote: »
    hahaa i was thinkin the exact same... then i realised.. oh feck i spent a whole night trying to figure out the odds of getting my poet to come up and I couldn't do it...

    so i had to guess a few parts.. 7/20 i think was part i.. and the others i forget but I don't think there right... 1/40 was an answer i got i think... oh well

    but i couldn't help but laugh when i seen it hahaah
    7/20 was the first bit. 1/40 the second. I forget what I got for the third.


  • #6
    miniture
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭miniture


    citizenerased1 wrote: »
    love this thread :D

    cue the conspiracy theories :p


    It would have been briliant if they actually mentioned boland and longley haha


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  • #7
    blacklionboy
    Registered Users Posts: 100 ✭✭blacklionboy


    Even the state examinations board has a sense of humour!


  • #8
    Making It Bad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 315 ✭✭Making It Bad


    Got the part (a) and (c) no probs then ****ed up this, shouldn't have done probability. Q3 was so lovely too, I'm a fool. Hopefully won't cost me my A.


  • #9
    wonderfulname
    Registered Users Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    Yea that question brought a smile to my face, not least because it was so bloody nice!


  • #10
    H2student
    Closed Accounts Posts: 311 ✭✭H2student


    Lol so I'm not the only one who thought "guess calculating poets probability is studying after all".


  • #11
    muffinz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 487 ✭✭muffinz


    didnt study a wink of probability for paper 2 so i had to do everything else, everything was grand till question 4, the part c was so hard, but q5 part c was eaaazayyy


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  • #12
    miniture
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭miniture


    I should point out i did pass but some of the lads wshowed me that question


  • #13
    3_BOoYA_X
    Registered Users Posts: 330 ✭✭3_BOoYA_X


    Any one else think Q5 was a babe of a question ? :D


  • #14
    muffinz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 487 ✭✭muffinz


    3_BOoYA_X wrote: »
    Any one else think Q5 was a babe of a question ? :D
    the part c where u had to show it was equals to 2+2cos(a-b) or whatever it was was so eassssy!!


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