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Tue 06 Jun 2007Question on linear programming causes dismayLeaving Cert: maths ordinary and higher - paper 2:A knotty exercise in linear programming put some students off yesterday's ordinary level maths paper 2. Ninety-five per cent of students opt for this question from a possible four areas, including vectors and probability."Question 11b could have been better expressed," said Jim Healy, a teacher at Terenure College, Dublin. "Many students were banking on this section and the question was very poorly received."