The UK Senior Mathematical Challenge for Years 12 and 13 was held in November during Eid Al Adha. A number of students came into the Senior School to take the challenge and some who were on the Thailand Community Service Trip sat the exam in Thailand. The results are given below. Aditya Sarkar also receives a “Best in School” award and was invited to take part in the next round called the Senior “Kangaroo” Mathematical Challenge.

Gold

• Aditya Sarkar

Sliver

• Abdulla Abdulla(Adel)
• Aditya Balamuralikrishna
• Aleena Fazli
• Devi Nair
• Elias Vouzounis
• Neeti Joshua
• Sampriti Gupta
• Sharath Pillai

Bronze

• Devika Lal
• Faruq Quadir
• Jeremy Joseph
• Nabeel Mohammed
• Namita Joshua
• Reem D'Souza
• Roshan George
• Vishal Goveas
• Yasmeen Zainal 

Here is one of the questions. Two sides of a triangle have lengths 4cm and 5cm. The third side has length x cm, where x is a positive integer. How many different values can x have?

A 4              B 5               C 6              D 7              E 8  

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Solution: D