Are YOU Smarter Than a Teenager?

Take this maths test to find out... you might be surprised

By Lila Randall
The Sun

May 30, 2016

MILLIONS of adults are unable to answer questions on a GCSE maths paper designed for 15-year-olds, are you one of them?

When parents attempted to answer a sample GCSE paper, around 40 per cent gave the wrong answers.

Take the five-question test below and see how you do, the answers will be revealed further down.

Question one

An ordinary, fair dice is rolled 420 times. How many times is the number 3 expected?

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b) 210

c) 70

Question two

50 raffle tickets are sold for 25p each. The winning ticket is picked at random. Linda buys 14 tickets. What is the probability that Linda buys the winning ticket?

a) 1/4

b) 7/25

c) 1/50

Question three

There were some people on a train. 19 people get off at the first stop. 17 people get on. Now there are 63 people on the train. How many people were on the train to begin with?

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b) 36

c) 62

Question four

40% is the same as:

a) 2/5

b) 4/1

c) 4/5

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