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Daily Mirror
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Grace Hoffman

Students utterly baffled by 'sadistic' final question in GSCE maths paper- can you crack it?

Students have been left utterly baffled by a painfully difficult question on their GCSE maths paper.

After sitting the Edexcel maths paper, some pupils shared their distress over the tough question on social media, admitting that the puzzle left them "furious".

They were presented with a diagram that asked them to "find the area of the shaded shape in the form p(2+2√2)a".

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