### Coke Machine

The coke machine in college takes 50 pence pieces. It also takes a certain foreign coin of traditional design. Coins inserted into the machine slide down a chute into the machine and a drink is duly released. How many more revolutions does the foreign coin make over the 50 pence piece going down the chute? N.B. A 50 pence piece is a 7 sided polygon ABCDEFG with rounded edges, obtained by replacing AB with arc centred at E and radius EA; replacing BC with arc centred at F radius FB ...etc..

### At a Glance

The area of a regular pentagon looks about twice as a big as the pentangle star drawn within it. Is it?

### Six Discs

Six circular discs are packed in different-shaped boxes so that the discs touch their neighbours and the sides of the box. Can you put the boxes in order according to the areas of their bases?

# Cosines Rule

##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

(a) Prove that a triangle with sides $3$, $7$, $8$ contains a $60$ degree angle.

(b) Three points $A$, $B$ and $C$ lie in this order on a line, and $P$ is any point in the plane. Use the Cosine Rule to prove that:

${AP^2\over AB.AC}+{CP^2\over CA.CB} = 1 + {PB^2\over BA.BC}.$