"I was just guessing at numbers and figures Pulling your puzzles apart" [Coldplay]
Saturday, July 27, 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
Source Catriona Shearer
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
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
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Saturday, July 13, 2019
Rich Tasks 58: Cubic Sums
In 1939, L. E. Dickson proved that all positive integers can be represented as the sum of at most 9 positive cubes. Interestingly, only two numbers exist that require all 9 cubes: 23 and 239 pic.twitter.com/ii93g0RqrB— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) July 12, 2019
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
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
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