### Painting Cubes

Imagine you have six different colours of paint. You paint a cube using a different colour for each of the six faces. How many different cubes can be painted using the same set of six colours?

### Tri-colour

Six points are arranged in space so that no three are collinear. How many line segments can be formed by joining the points in pairs?

### Permute It

Take the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and imagine them written down in every possible order to give 5 digit numbers. Find the sum of the resulting numbers.

# Even Squares

##### Stage: 3 Short Challenge Level:

Firstly, there are $12$ unit squares which contain an even number.

Every $2\times2$ square in the diagram has entries which consist of two odd numbers and two even numbers and hence have an even total. There are $16$ of these.

Each $3\times3$ square in the diagram, however, has entries which consist of five odd numbers and four even numbers (giving an odd total), or four odd numbers and five even numbers (giving an even total). There are $4$ of the latter: those with $8$, $12$, $14$ or $18$ in the centre.

Every $4\times4$ square in the diagram has entries which consist of eight odd numbers and eight even numbers and hence have an even total. There are $4$ of these.

Finally, the full $5\times5$ square contains $13$ odd numbers and $12$ even numbers, giving an odd total.

So the required number is $12+16+4+4$, that is $36$.

This problem is taken from the UKMT Mathematical Challenges.