Stage: 4 Challenge Level: 
The squares of any 8 consecutive numbers can be arranged into two sets of four numbers with the same sum.
True or false?
Quadratic functions. Stage 5 - Reviewed 2012. Manipulating algebraic expressions/formulae. Surds. Inequality/inequalities. Creating expressions/formulae. Powers & roots. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Polynomials. Simultaneous equations.
Published July 1997.
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