Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Here's the last question from the 2022 GCSE maths paper that made the news. We have three circles as shown and each radius is 4 cm. We have to find the area of the shaded region in the middle. I made a horrible mistake last time when I said the area of a circular sector is r*theta. The correct formula should be A=1/2*r^2*theta and theta has to be in radians.

My first time doing a British GCSE maths paper: youtu.be/rJXfUiSwBzU?si=Ps79fuXWQ1xiQ_In
Reddit: reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/12oholz/self_last_years_gcse_maths_question_that_made_the
The Sun News: thesun.co.uk/news/18647879/kids-left-baffled-impossible-gcse-question

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