One of the books used. Sample questions from the publisher’s website include: “share £550 in the ratio 𝟧 ∶ 𝟨” and “a parallelogram is drawn so that its smallest angle is one third the
size of its largest angle. How big is the largest angle?”
Clare (like gare) is a Chalkdust editor. In her spare time, she’s an assistant professor at Durham University. She likes Skittles, probability, and making the magazine look more like Cosmo.
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