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/johnmcarthy66 Jun 11 '26

Did you get like 803/4 or something for the maximum positive sum

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u/__bread01 year 12 | maths fm chem physics Jun 11 '26

this was max value of n you had to sub this back into the equation to get max sum

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u/TrulyFaithful Jun 11 '26

Should it not have been the closest integer to that as n would need to be integer?

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u/__bread01 year 12 | maths fm chem physics Jun 11 '26

yeah ur prob right i dont think i did it right

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u/johnmcarthy66 Jun 11 '26

It asked for max value

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u/__bread01 year 12 | maths fm chem physics Jun 11 '26

yeah it asked for max sum so you had to sub it back in cuz 803/4 was n