Can YOU solve this high school maths problem? Students still scratching their heads over the '50 cent piece' question in final exams - and parents admit even they have no idea how to answer it
- Some Victorian Year 12 students sat the VCE Further Maths exam on Friday
- Students are complaining that a multiple choice question was too hard
- An online debate has begun online with others arguing it is too easy
- Adults are now testing themselves to see if they can solve the question
Victorian high school students are complaining a maths question in their crucial final exam was far too difficult, sparking furious online debate.
On Friday Year 12 VCE students sat the Further Maths exam and were confronted with a question which will change the way they look at 50 cent coins forever.
The multiple choice question asked students to look at two 50 cent coins with 12 sides each - which are known as dodecagons - and find the degree of the angle between them.
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Victorian high school students are complaining a maths question in their crucial last exam was too difficult
On Friday Year 12 VCE students sat the Further Maths exam and were confronted with a question which will change the way they look at 50 cent coins forever
However, many on social media have retaliated by arguing the question is simple to solve
‘A 50 cent coin has 12 sides of equal length. Two 50 cent coins are balanced next to each other on a table so they meet along one edge,’ the question reads.
Students were then asked to select from five options from 12 to 72 degrees.
Many students have spent the days since the exam mulling over the question and took to social media to vent about their anguish.
‘F*** you 50 cent, I didn’t like your music anyway,’ one defeated Year 12 student posted, according to The Age.
‘That exam wasn't there to test us, it was to trick, no one could of prepared for that,’ a VCE student wrote.
‘The 50 cent coin question make no sense to me as it asked us to find the angle, but it gave us no other angles or lengths to enter in the formulas so there was simply no way about it,’ a student said conclusively.
‘It was sh**ty question,’ another student told Daily Mail Australia in very simple terms.
‘Still trying to figure out the angle,’ another student wrote, taking a photo of two 50 cent coins side by side in the hope the real life representation could shed some light on the equation.
However, people retaliated on social media – putting salt in the wounds of jaded VCE students by arguing the question was actually too simple to even be in a Year 12 exam.
Teachers also insist the question was within the expected ability of a Further Maths VCE student and suggest students may have overthought the problem
Students found the answer by working out the exterior angle of a 12-sided polygon - a dodecagon
Many people have even put salt in the wounds of jaded VCE students by insisting the question was too easy
Many students have spent the days since the exam mulling over the question and took to social media to vent about their anguish
Adults have started to test themselves, with many relieved to find the right
‘This seriously took me 10 seconds to solve. Stop your whinging kids!’ Adam Astill wrote on Facebook.
‘And this stumped VCE students? Gimme a break! My Year 5s could have worked it out,’ wrote Darren Adams.
‘It is easy. Overthinking did them in,’ wrote Pothiraju Seetharam.
Some students also argued that the question was easy to solve with a knowledge of how to find either the interior or exterior angles of a polygon.
‘I thought that question was one of the easiest ones in the booklet,’ one student boasted.
'And when is this going to be used in real life?' raged another.
'Phew, glad I got it right! That could have been embarrassing,' an adult posted after taking on the Year 12 exam question.
A multiple choice question asked students to look at two 50 cent coins with 12 sides each - dodecagons
Some students also argued that the question was easy to solve with a knowledge of how to find either the interior or exterior angles of a polygon
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