Did you solve it? Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old?
by Alex Bellos from on (#243ZX)
The results of today's primary maths challenge
Earlier today I set you ten questions from this year's International Singapore Maths Competition. Here are the questions and the answers. On the whole you did very well - smarter than a 10-year-old Singaporean! (With the caveat that they didn't have multiple choice answers to choose from, and they are only ten). The only questions where your most popular answer the wrong one were 6 and 8. (C in Q6, and B in Q8). Thanks for taking part - now look through your workings...
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