The conundrum hails from a 2022 Pearson Edexcel GCSE higher maths exam
It's that tense time of year again, with students across the nation diving into their books for revision. The pressure is on for our teens, as the first exams kicked off on Monday May 6, with the season drawing to a close on or before Friday June 21.
. It lays out the scenario: "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. Explain why Albie's estimate cannot be correct", reports the Manchester Evening News.The simplicity of the question was something that baffled many.
However, Reddit users were left just as confused by the intricacies of the question. One perplexed commenter questioned: "I'm confused. Is the answer just that he caught 55 rabbits, so there has to be at least 55 in the woods? " whilst another mooted: "But if he caught the rabbits those rabbits are no longer in the woods meaning he could be correct".
An additional user conceded: "It seriously threw me off until I read the comments. I thought the expectation is that by recording the tags he was able to confirm whether a rabbit he has caught is one he had previously caught and that he had then worked out it was approximately a 10% chance of catching the same rabbit. 10% off of 55 is roughly 50 so he estimated that there are 50 rabbits.
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