Which countries have the most naturally athletic populations?
The heptathlon is an athletics competition consisting of 7 events. Can you make sense of the scoring system in order to advise a heptathlete on the best way to reach her target?
Where should runners start the 200m race so that they have all run the same distance by the finish?
Does weight confer an advantage to shot putters?
Exploit the symmetry and turn this quartic into a quadratic.
See how the weight of weights varies across the globe.
Consider the mechanics of pole vaulting
In what ways can the pdfs of two normal distributions intersect?
A weekly challenge: these are shorter problems aimed at Post-16 students or enthusiastic younger students.
A weekly challenge concerning combinatorical probability.
Elliot and Linden sent us clear explanations of why each graph had the shape it did.
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