Back in my time a riddle
What is 12 inches or so long , pink and hard ??
The honours maths paper in the Leaving Cert
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Quadratics always have 2 solutions afaik.
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One of my kids had a load of long division to do yesterday, I was working away with one of the others on Irish, anyway she arrives along with all the answers after a few minutes, no work shown
I admire her ability to stick to a story though, spent about a half an hour looking for the sheet with all the work on it, looking under couches, beds the whole lot,
For a finish I let her off by âredoingâ around half of them
Texts and Tests might be one of my favourite math books of all time but itâs hard to beat Busy at Maths for the artwork.
The back of the book can be wrong
I remember thinking it was the greatest thing of all time that the answers were all at the back of the book. It was the worst thing ever though, because then you knew you were wrong and couldnât just leave it
Heresy
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Tis like building a corona model kid, with the information we have thereâs more than one right answer
Iâll get my coat
Johnny Wrafter?
If you werenât Wrafter maths, you were nothing.
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In Leaving Cert stats, a 100% correct answer could potentially be âsomewhere between -500 and 25000â.
Great work but in case @ironmikes daughter takes that down line by line there should be a 2 before the y(y) in line (ii). You corrected it in line (iii).
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Good point.
I despise mathematics.
you have been given a job to do.
you must transport 3,000 apples from limerick to cork.
it is 1,000 miles from limerick to cork.
your van can carry 1,000 apples at any one time.
every mile you travel going from limerick to cork you must pay 1 apple in tax.
you pay no apple tax when travelling from cork to limerick.
Whats the most amount of apples you can get to cork?
Whatâs going one here , good will hunting ?