Rectangle PQRS has X and Y on the edges. Triangles PQY, YRX and XSP have equal areas. Prove X and Y divide the sides of PQRS in the golden ratio.
A 1 metre cube has one face on the ground and one face against a wall. A 4 metre ladder leans against the wall and just touches the cube. How high is the top of the ladder above the ground?
Investigate how you can work out what day of the week your birthday will be on next year, and the year after...
A grocer places some oranges, peaches, apples and bananas in a row so that, somewhere in the row each type of fruit can be found next to each other type of fruit. What is the smallest possible number of fruits in the row? 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.