### Golden Thoughts

Rectangle PQRS has X and Y on the edges. Triangles PQY, YRX and XSP have equal areas. Prove X and Y divide the sides of PQRS in the golden ratio.

A 1 metre cube has one face on the ground and one face against a wall. A 4 metre ladder leans against the wall and just touches the cube. How high is the top of the ladder above the ground?

### Days and Dates

Investigate how you can work out what day of the week your birthday will be on next year, and the year after...

# Medal Ceremony

##### Stage: 3 and 4 Short Challenge Level:

There are $6$ different students who could receive the first gold medal, then $5$ others for the second and $4$ remaining for the third. Therefore there are $6 \times 5 \times 4 = 120$ orders in which the medals can be presented. However, this counts each set of three people winning the medals in each of the six orders, so there are $120 \div 6 = 20$ sets of three people who could win gold.

For each of these, one of the remaining three people must win bronze and the others silver, so there are $20 \times 3 = 60$ ways in which the medals can be awarded.

This problem is taken from the UKMT Mathematical Challenges.

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