WEIRD! -The question with no answer

Doing maths can be hard at the best of times, but spare a thought for a group of South African students who were presented with an ‘unsolvable’ question, in error.

The question was generated for a final mathematics exam, and has been deemed problematic by the Quality Council for General and Further Education and Training.

The education council has now selected a panel to look into the trigonometry question in the Grade 12 Mathematics Paper became included, and why it wasn’t detected before printing.