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

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