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Diggits

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Can you find what the last two digits of the number $4^{1999}$ are?

Times Right

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Using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, mulitply a two two digit numbers are multiplied to give a four digit number, so that the expression is correct. How many different solutions can you find?

Missing Multipliers

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What is the smallest number of answers you need to reveal in order to work out the missing headers?

Hot Pursuit

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The sum of the first 'n' natural numbers is a 3 digit number in which all the digits are the same. How many numbers have been summed?

Shifting Times Tables

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Can you find a way to identify times tables after they have been shifted up?

One to Eight

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Complete the following expressions so that each one gives a four digit number as the product of two two digit numbers and uses the digits 1 to 8 once and only once.

Twice a week I go swimming and swim the same number of lengths of the pool each time. As I swim, I count the lengths I've done so far, and make it into a fraction of the whole number of lengths. . . .

Counting Cogs

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Which pairs of cogs let the coloured tooth touch every tooth on the other cog? Which pairs do not let this happen? Why?

X Marks the Spot

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When the number x 1 x x x is multiplied by 417 this gives the answer 9 x x x 0 5 7. Find the missing digits, each of which is represented by an "x" .

Shifting Times Tables Game

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In this activity, the computer chooses a times table and shifts it. Can you work out the table and the shift each time?

AB Search

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The five digit number A679B, in base ten, is divisible by 72. What are the values of A and B?

Inclusion Exclusion

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How many integers between 1 and 1200 are NOT multiples of any of the numbers 2, 3 or 5?

Can You Find a Perfect Number?

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Can you find any perfect numbers? Read this article to find out more...

Thirty Six Exactly

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The number 12 = 2^2 � 3 has 6 factors. What is the smallest natural number with exactly 36 factors?

Eminit

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The number 8888...88M9999...99 is divisible by 7 and it starts with the digit 8 repeated 50 times and ends with the digit 9 repeated 50 times. What is the value of the digit M?

Gaxinta

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A number N is divisible by 10, 90, 98 and 882 but it is NOT divisible by 50 or 270 or 686 or 1764. It is also known that N is a factor of 9261000. What is N?

Remainders

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I'm thinking of a number. When my number is divided by 5 the remainder is 4. When my number is divided by 3 the remainder is 2. Can you find my number?

Divisively So

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How many numbers less than 1000 are NOT divisible by either: a) 2 or 5; or b) 2, 5 or 7?

Helen's Conjecture

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Helen made the conjecture that "every multiple of six has more factors than the two numbers either side of it". Is this conjecture true?

Sieve of Eratosthenes

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Follow this recipe for sieving numbers and see what interesting patterns emerge.

Oh! Hidden Inside?

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Find the number which has 8 divisors, such that the product of the divisors is 331776.

Ewa's Eggs

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I put eggs into a basket in groups of 7 and noticed that I could easily have divided them into piles of 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 and always have one left over. How many eggs were in the basket?

Digat

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What is the value of the digit A in the sum below: [3(230 + A)]^2 = 49280A

Factoring Factorials

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Find the highest power of 11 that will divide into 1000! exactly.

Factorial

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How many zeros are there at the end of the number which is the product of first hundred positive integers?

Factors and Multiple Challenges

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This package contains a collection of problems from the NRICH website that could be suitable for students who have a good understanding of Factors and Multiples and who feel ready to take on some. . . .

Powerful Factorial

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6! = 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1. The highest power of 2 that divides exactly into 6! is 4 since (6!) / (2^4 ) = 45. What is the highest power of two that divides exactly into 100!?

Remainder

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What is the remainder when 2^2002 is divided by 7? What happens with different powers of 2?

How Old Are the Children?

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A student in a maths class was trying to get some information from her teacher. She was given some clues and then the teacher ended by saying, "Well, how old are they?"

The Remainders Game

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A game that tests your understanding of remainders.

14 Divisors

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What is the smallest number with exactly 14 divisors?

Three Times Seven

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A three digit number abc is always divisible by 7 when 2a+3b+c is divisible by 7. Why?

Squaresearch

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Consider numbers of the form un = 1! + 2! + 3! +...+n!. How many such numbers are perfect squares?

Repeaters

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Choose any 3 digits and make a 6 digit number by repeating the 3 digits in the same order (e.g. 594594). Explain why whatever digits you choose the number will always be divisible by 7, 11 and 13.

Exploring Simple Mappings

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Explore the relationship between simple linear functions and their graphs.

Two Much

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Explain why the arithmetic sequence 1, 14, 27, 40, ... contains many terms of the form 222...2 where only the digit 2 appears.

A First Product Sudoku

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Given the products of adjacent cells, can you complete this Sudoku?

Shopping Basket

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A mathematician goes into a supermarket and buys four items. Using a calculator she multiplies the cost instead of adding them. How can her answer be the same as the total at the till?

Adding All Nine

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Make a set of numbers that use all the digits from 1 to 9, once and once only. Add them up. The result is divisible by 9. Add each of the digits in the new number. What is their sum? Now try some. . . .

Factors and Multiples Game

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A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?

Expenses

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What is the largest number which, when divided into 1905, 2587, 3951, 7020 and 8725 in turn, leaves the same remainder each time?

Big Powers

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Three people chose this as a favourite problem. It is the sort of problem that needs thinking time - but once the connection is made it gives access to many similar ideas.

Number Rules - OK

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Can you convince me of each of the following: If a square number is multiplied by a square number the product is ALWAYS a square number...

Factors and Multiples Puzzle

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A challenge that requires you to apply your knowledge of the properties of numbers. Can you fill all the squares on the board?

What a Joke

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Each letter represents a different positive digit AHHAAH / JOKE = HA What are the values of each of the letters?

American Billions

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Play the divisibility game to create numbers in which the first two digits make a number divisible by 2, the first three digits make a number divisible by 3...

GOT IT Now

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For this challenge, you'll need to play Got It! Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?

Dozens

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

Phew I'm Factored

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Explore the factors of the numbers which are written as 10101 in different number bases. Prove that the numbers 10201, 11011 and 10101 are composite in any base.

Even So

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Find some triples of whole numbers a, b and c such that a^2 + b^2 + c^2 is a multiple of 4. Is it necessarily the case that a, b and c must all be even? If so, can you explain why?

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