### Alphabet Blocks

These alphabet bricks are painted in a special way. A is on one brick, B on two bricks, and so on. How many bricks will be painted by the time they have got to other letters of the alphabet?

### Forgotten Number

I have forgotten the number of the combination of the lock on my briefcase. I did have a method for remembering it...

### Cat Food

Sam sets up displays of cat food in his shop in triangular stacks. If Felix buys some, then how can Sam arrange the remaining cans in triangular stacks?

# Man Food

##### Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:

Sam stacks cans in his shop in triangular stacks, one can deep, (see the problem Cat Food ).

Jennifer from the Mount School York warned Sam that stacks of cans like this are very likely to fall over. It's better to stack in a pyramid: for example. $P_4$ has $16$ on the base, then $9$ then $4$ and finally $1$.

In his shop Sam has a display of cans of baked beans in three triangular stacks.
He decides to rearrange the display and realises that he could either make a single large triangular stack with the same number of cans or stack them all in a square-based pyramid.

How many cans has he got and how was his first display arranged?

The following problem was invented by Kerry of Lasswade High School:

Sams gets deliveries of $45$ cans every Monday and Wednesday.
He received his Monday delivery and used all the cans to make three triangular stacks.
On Tuesday he had three customers all of whom bought $12$ cans each.
After his Wednesday delivery he found that with all his leftovers from Monday and his new cans, he could make three triangular stacks in more than one way.

How many ways could he make three triangular stacks?
What are the ways?