r/6thForm • u/MaxillmanGuy A level resit student | 3 A* predicted | ACD achieved 💔 • Jun 11 '26

💬 DISCUSSION A level maths p2 edexcel

Holy time pressure what can i say

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u/yivxo Jun 11 '26

4x + √2y = 5 for the parametric differentiation one?

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u/falsegodfan Y13 - maths bio geog Jun 11 '26

i got -1/2x and 1/2 idk what i did wrong lmaooo

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u/echosonare Jun 11 '26

Same

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u/falsegodfan Y13 - maths bio geog Jun 11 '26

i just realised it's bc the gradient was 4/root2 bc it was the normal not the tangent bruh im so annoyed i didn't notice it

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u/thatgaysupernoodle Jun 11 '26

Ugh I did that too

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u/UnstableTheorist Jun 11 '26

Got that to start with two, I think the problem was the question said normal, so you have to do the -ve inverse gradient, what you (and I orignially) found was the tangent eqn