### Consecutive Numbers

An investigation involving adding and subtracting sets of consecutive numbers. Lots to find out, lots to explore.

### 14 Divisors

What is the smallest number with exactly 14 divisors?

### Summing Consecutive Numbers

Many numbers can be expressed as the sum of two or more consecutive integers. For example, 15=7+8 and 10=1+2+3+4. Can you say which numbers can be expressed in this way?

# Digit Deletion

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

Dominique wrote down the $1000$-digit number $20082008\ldots 2008$.
She then erased some digits and was suprised to find that the remaining digits added up to $2008$. What is largest number of digits that she could have erased?

If you liked this problem, here is an NRICH task which challenges you to use similar mathematical ideas.

This problem is taken from the UKMT Mathematical Challenges.
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