The Live Stage 5 Material


These are the live Stage 5 problems which are currently open for solution or comment. Why not submit a solution or comment on any parts that you have done?
 

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A Long Time at the Till

Try to solve this very difficult problem and then study our two suggested solutions. How would you use your knowledge to try to solve variants on the original problem?

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Dodgy Proofs

These proofs are wrong. Can you see why?

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Calculating with Cosines

If I tell you two sides of a right-angled triangle, you can easily work out the third. But what if the angle between the two sides is not a right angle?

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pdf Stories

Invent scenarios which would give rise to these probability density functions.

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Circle pdf

What happens if this pdf is the arc of a circle?


 

These are the weekly problems currently open for discussion on the blogs:

 

Gradient Match

 

AP train

 

Trigger

 

Top Marks

 

These are the two live investigations open for discussion on the blogs, which will update every month:

 

A rational search

 

Few and Far between

 

 

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