Thursday, October 15, 2015

Croc Update (Tricky Maths Question Edition)

Can you answer the tricky crocodile maths question?: A maths question in a Scottish exam was deemed so hard the pass mark had to be lowered.

4 comments:

Don Coffin said...

I got an answer, but it took me about 20 minutes, and I'm not sure it's right (because the right answer is not given. It is a truly nasty question. (And, of course, the answer would be different and the computation much more involved if the prey were moving).

Unknown said...

I can barely do simple arithmetic.

Deb said...

And the likelihood that you'd ever encounter a crocodile stalking prey in Scotland is...?

Don Coffin said...

Deb--someone brought a baby croc home from a vacation in Florida and flushed it.