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Orbiting Billiard Balls

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

What angle is needed for a ball to do a circuit of the billiard table and then pass through its original position?

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Substitution Cipher and Frequency Analysis

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Investigate some text to find the frequency distribution for ordinary English and use that to help you crack the coded text below.

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Snow and Cholera

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

What information helped medical pioneers decide on the cause of a disease? Especially in a time before microscopes were as powerful as they are today ?

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Tin Tight

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

What's the most efficient proportion for a 1 litre tin of paint?

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Swimmers

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Swimmers in opposite directions cross at 20m and at 30m from each end of a swimming pool. How long is the pool ?

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Points in Pairs

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

In the diagram the radius length is 10 units, OP is 8 units and OQ is 6 units. If the distance PQ is 5 units what is the distance P'Q' ?

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Pythagoras’ Comma

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Using an understanding that 1:2 and 2:3 were good ratios, start with a length and keep reducing it to 2/3 of itself. Each time that took the length under 1/2 they doubled it to get back within range.

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Peaches in General

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

It's like 'Peaches Today, Peaches Tomorrow' but interestingly generalized.

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Unusual Long Division - Square Roots Before Calculators

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

However did we manage before calculators? Is there an efficient way to do a square root if you have to do the work yourself?

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A Change in Code

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

There are two sets of numbers. The second is the result of the first after an increase by a constant percentage. How can you find that percentage if one set of numbers is in code?

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Funnel

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

A plastic funnel is used to pour liquids through narrow apertures. What shape funnel would use the least amount of plastic to manufacture for any specific volume ?

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Tetrahedra Tester

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

An irregular tetrahedron is composed of four different triangles. Can such a tetrahedron be constructed where the side lengths are 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 units of length?

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Cola Can

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

An aluminium can contains 330 ml of cola. If the can's diameter is 6 cm what is the can's height?

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Semi-regular Tessellations

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Semi-regular tessellations combine two or more different regular polygons to fill the plane. Can you find all the semi-regular tessellations?

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The Line and Its Strange Pair

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

In the diagram the point P' can move to different places along the dotted line. Each position P' takes will fix a corresponding position for P. If P' moves along a straight line what does P do ?

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The Rescaled Map

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

We use statistics to give ourselves an informed view on a subject of interest. This problem explores how to scale countries on a map to represent characteristics other than land area.

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Mapping the Wandering Circle

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

In the diagram the point P can move to different places around the dotted circle. Each position P takes will fix a corresponding position for P'. As P moves around on that circle what will P' do?

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Two Shapes & Printer Ink

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

If I print this page which shape will require the more yellow ink?

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Pentakite

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

ABCDE is a regular pentagon of side length one unit. BC produced meets ED produced at F. Show that triangle CDF is congruent to triangle EDB. Find the length of BE.

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Equal Temperament

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

The scale on a piano does something clever : the ratio (interval) between any adjacent points on the scale is equal. If you play any note, twelve points higher will be exactly an octave on.

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A Scale for the Solar System

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

The Earth is further from the Sun than Venus, but how much further? Twice as far? Ten times?

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Dating Made Easier

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

If a sum invested gains 10% each year how long before it has doubled its value?

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Six Notes All Nice Ratios

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

The Pythagoreans noticed that nice simple ratios of string length made nice sounds together.

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Eight Ratios

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Two perpendicular lines lie across each other and the end points are joined to form a quadrilateral. Eight ratios are defined, three are given but five need to be found.

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Xtra

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Find the sides of an equilateral triangle ABC where a trapezium BCPQ is drawn with BP=CQ=2 , PQ=1 and AP+AQ=sqrt7 . Note: there are 2 possible interpretations.