### 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?

# Facial Sums

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

Let the numbers at two of the other vertices be $u$ and $v$, as shown in the diagram. The three faces sharing the vertex labelled with the number 1 all have the same sum. Then $1+v+u=1+5+u$ and so $v=5$.

Similarly, $1+v+5 = 1+v+u$ so $u =5$.

Hence the sum for each faces is $1+5+5=11$, and we see that the number at the bottom vertex is $1$.

The total of all the vertices is $1+5+5+5+1=17$.

This problem is taken from the UKMT Mathematical Challenges.
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