This supposed P6 math question about bike sharing is more difficult to solve than unreturned oBike deposits

Moderately paced math.

Nyi Nyi Thet | July 10, 2018, 11:20 PM

A user on local forum HardwareZone posted this math problem, supposedly taken from a Primary 6 pupil's homework.

If you can't see the question, here it is.

"One afternoon 5 friends rented 3 bicycles from 5.00pm to 6.30pm and took turns to ride on them. At any time, 3 of them cycled while the other 2 friends rested.

If each of them had the same amount of cycling time, how many minutes did each person ride on a bicycle?"

Here are some of the proposed "answers":

Screenshots from EDMW

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A spanner in the works might have been thrown by a teacher who appears to have claimed the answer 54 minutes is wrong:

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Top photo via HardwareZone forum post