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See it on the paper →A large minority of candidates had a good understanding of regions, drew the lines in the correct positions and with the correct style and identified the region correctly as requested. Errors in drawing the boundary lines and/or errors in identifying the region were common. Boundary lines were usually correctly positioned but incorrect line styles, i.e. solid lines when they should be dashed, and...
— Examiner report, May/June 2025, 0580/43 Q16 (Cambridge)
Finding the inequalities that define the region was answered fully correctly by only a minority of candidates with many struggling with inequality notation or identifying the lines that made up the region. There were a range of errors seen in partially correct responses. Common errors included use of equals signs or the wrong inequality sign when attempting to express the inequalities, there were...
— Examiner report, May/June 2024, 0580/21 Q11 (Cambridge)
This part was answered less well. Nearly all candidates were able to multiply out the brackets correctly and to collect the terms in x and the numerical values correctly on either side of the inequality sign. Those who had −20 < 4x were usually able to continue to give a correct answer. The difficulty arose for those who had −4 x < 20 . Many of these knew that if they divided both sides by a negat...
— Examiner report, February/March 2019, 0580/42 Q10(c) (Cambridge)
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