### 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?

### Dozens

Do you know a quick way to check if a number is a multiple of two? How about three, four or six?

# Indigo Interior

##### Stage: 3 Short Challenge Level:
Let the centre of the circle be $O$ and let $A$ and $B$ be corners of one of the shaded squares, as shown.

As the circle has area $\pi$ square units, its radius is $1$ unit. So $OB$ is $1$ unit long.

Let the length of the side of each of the shaded squares be $x$ units.
By Pythagoras's Theorem, $OB^2 = OA^2 + AB^2$, that is $1^2 = (2x)^2 + x^2$.
So $5x^2=1$. Now the total shaded area is $8x^2 = 8 \times \frac{1}{5} = 1 \frac{3}{5}$ square units.

This problem is taken from the UKMT Mathematical Challenges.

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