• original2@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’m from the uk and they definitely shoe-horn in “real world” problems here too. In my A level exams we had to:

    • Find the volume of a vase with parametric volumes of revolution and de moivres theorum
    • Find the population of a bacterial colony with a second order decoupled differential equation
    • use polar integration to find the area of a porch

    But there were also more pure questions which was good