Saw today's news item - GCSE students complaining about 'difficult' maths question. It was in a GCSE Higher Tier paper. It involved a bit of probability, juggling simple algebraic equations and solving a quadratic equation (I'm implying it was easy for that level).
The question (paraphrased):
Hannah has a bag of sweets. Six of them are orange, the rest are yellow.
She takes two sweets and they are both orange. The chance of that was 1/3.
Show that n squared - n - 90 = 0.
Solve this equation to find n.
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