Stage: 3, 4 and 5 Challenge Level: 
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You can weigh all integer masses from 1 to 60 with 6 weights
putting the weights in one pan and the object in the other pan.
Which weights are used?
What about weighing all integer masses from 1 to 1000 or from
1 to n?
How many weights are needed if you put weights in both
pans?
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epsilons. Making and proving conjectures. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Stage 5 - Reviewed 2012. Divisibility. Representing numbers. Diophantine equations. Geometric sequence. Number bases. Place value.
Published March 2008,April 2008.
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