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If x, y and z are real numbers such that: x + y + z = 5 and xy + yz + zx = 3. What is the largest value that any of the numbers can have?

Overturning Fracsum

Can you solve the system of equations to find the values of x, y and z?

Building Tetrahedra

Can you make a tetrahedron whose faces all have the same perimeter?

Simultaneous Equations Sudoku

Age 11 to 18
Challenge Level

Caitlin kept a record of the order in which she filled the Sudoku.

She filled the cell marked 1 first, then the cell marked 2, then the cell marked 3...

You might like to retrace her route to fill in the cells in the same order, though this is just one possible route through the problem.

You can print her journey here.



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