'These type of questions do make you question your own intelligence'
A GCSE maths question about a boy catching rabbits in the woods has left people puzzled. But would you be able to answer it?
One person took to Reddit to highlight what many mistook for a 'trick question' in a Maths past paper. Posting a screenshot of the question to the r/GCSE subreddit, the user wrote: "Right who's making these questions".The head-scratcher comes from a 2022 Pearson Edexcel GCSE higher maths paper. It sets out the problem: "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.
Someone else added: "Assuming he's operating catch and release. If it's catch and bag, then he has just removed 55 rabbits from the wood." Another person admitted: "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.
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