Monday, November 25, 2019

Rich Tasks 66: How many ways to fix?


In how many different ways can you fix this? You are allowed to use one extra matchstick and you can do 1 move at most.






Some solutions...





11 in base 2 equals to 3
Can there be more solutions?

Thursday, August 29, 2019

Rich Task 59: Cyrillic-Latin and Greek Alphabets

Draw a Venn diagram with three sets, which each set represents one of the Greek, Cyrillic or Latin alphabets. Then fill in the regions.


































Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Problem 126: A Beautiful similarity Problem


The fraction of the regular hexagon that is shaded is 5/24. What is the ratio red:orange?





















Friday, July 26, 2019

Problem 123: Squares

The side lengths of the three squares are consecutive integers. What’s the total area?

Source Catriona Shearer

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Problem 122: Square Root Graph Puzzle

Find the values of a, b, c and d. (All triangles are equilateral)


















Resource: Diego Rattagi

Problem 121: Who Gets the Most Amount?

Photo by Ibrahim Rifath on Unsplash

An amount of money is distributed among some people in such a way that;

the first person gets 1% of the money
the second gets 2% of the remaining
the third gets 3% of the remaining
and so on...


Which person gets the highest amount?

























Resource: Mustafa Yağcı

Saturday, July 13, 2019

Rich Tasks 58: Cubic Sums




Each group will write the given numbers using cubes from 1 to 9. The first group to finish will be the winner!

48
980
763
227
341