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coolmum123
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Maths past paper Question

Post by coolmum123 »

Hello All,

Doing a past paper from City and stumped on one question:

I have a hexagon on the left and a circle on the right with a line joining them labelled as "square it". i.e. the number in the circle MUST be the square of the number in the hexagon.

Question: write a number in the hexagon and circle such that the number in the circle is smaller than the number in the hexagon.

I can get a number which is larger or same but not smaller!!!

Thanks.
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Post by Guest55 »

If you need a number that is smaller when it is squared then:

0.5

0.5 squared = 0.25
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Post by coolmum123 »

:shock: oh dear it was that simple!!

Thank you
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Post by Guest55 »

It works for any number between 0 and 1
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