STEP 2001 Paper 2 Question 8
This thread is an excerpt from a discussion of the STEP papers immediately after they took place.
By Olof Sisask on Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 01:05 pm :

Q8) is that the one with f(x) = f(x+1)? That one really annoyed me, couldn't get it out.

By Tom Hardcastle on Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 01:10 pm :

Question 8 was fairly neat once you had that flash of insight :).

By Olof Sisask on Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 01:12 pm :

Was it the one with f(x+1) + f(x)? Really couldn't get that one, wasted nearly 30 mins on it! The closest I got was by using induction, but I couldn't even complete that. :(
Oh well :)

By Tom Hardcastle on Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 01:16 pm :
8 you can do by noting that ∫0 1 f(x)dx= ∫1 2 f(x)dx=…
By Olof Sisask on Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 01:20 pm :

Argh, unbelievable! I can't believe I didn't consider that!
I'm soooo gonna take that out on STEP 1 tomorrow :).