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Broad Topics > Calculations and Numerical Methods > Multiplication & division
As Easy as 1,2,3
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
When I type a sequence of letters my calculator gives the product of all the numbers in the corresponding memories. What numbers should I store so that when I type 'ONE' it returns 1, and when I type. . . .
Like Powers
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Investigate $1^n + 19^n + 20^n + 51^n + 57^n + 80^n + 82^n $ and $2^n + 12^n + 31^n + 40^n + 69^n + 71^n + 85^n$ for different values of n.
Slippy Numbers
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The number 10112359550561797752808988764044943820224719 is called a 'slippy number' because, when the last digit 9 is moved to the front, the new number produced is the slippy number multiplied by 9.
Long Multiplication
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A 3 digit number is multiplied by a 2 digit number and the calculation is written out as shown with a digit in place of each of the *'s. Complete the whole multiplication sum.
X Marks the Spot
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
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" .
3388
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Using some or all of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and using the digits 3, 3, 8 and 8 each once and only once make an expression equal to 24.
Two Many
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
What is the least square number which commences with six two's?
Method in Multiplying Madness?
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Watch our videos of multiplication methods that you may not have met before. Can you make sense of them?
Largest Number
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
What is the largest number you can make using the three digits 2, 3 and 4 in any way you like, using any operations you like? You can only use each digit once.
Skeleton
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Amazing as it may seem the three fives remaining in the following `skeleton' are sufficient to reconstruct the entire long division sum.
Diggits
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you find what the last two digits of the number $4^{1999}$ are?
Eminit
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
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?
Please Explain
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Visitors to Earth from the distant planet of Zub-Zorna were amazed when they found out that when the digits in this multiplication were reversed, the answer was the same! Find a way to explain. . . .
Magic Potting Sheds
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Mr McGregor has a magic potting shed. Overnight, the number of plants in it doubles. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of three gardens, planting one garden each day. Can he do it?
Multiply the Addition Square
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
If you take a three by three square on a 1-10 addition square and multiply the diagonally opposite numbers together, what is the difference between these products. Why?
Oh! Hidden Inside?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find the number which has 8 divisors, such that the product of the divisors is 331776.
Powerful Factorial
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
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!?
Going Round in Circles
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Mathematicians are always looking for efficient methods for solving problems. How efficient can you be?
Thirty Six Exactly
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The number 12 = 2^2 × 3 has 6 factors. What is the smallest natural number with exactly 36 factors?
Times Right
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
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?
A First Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Given the products of adjacent cells, can you complete this Sudoku?
Multiples Sudoku
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Each clue in this Sudoku is the product of the two numbers in adjacent cells.
Remainders
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
I'm thinking of a number. My number is both a multiple of 5 and a multiple of 6. What could my number be?
Ones Only
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find the smallest whole number which, when mutiplied by 7, gives a product consisting entirely of ones.
Missing Multipliers
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
What is the smallest number of answers you need to reveal in order to work out the missing headers?
Countdown
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
Factoring Factorials
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find the highest power of 11 that will divide into 1000! exactly.
A One in Seven Chance
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
What is the remainder when 2^{164}is divided by 7?
Round and Round and Round
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Where will the point stop after it has turned through 30 000 degrees? I took out my calculator and typed 30 000 ÷ 360. How did this help?
Power Mad!
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Powers of numbers behave in surprising ways. Take a look at some of these and try to explain why they are true.
2010: A Year of Investigations
Age 5 to 14
This article for teachers suggests ideas for activities built around 10 and 2010.
The Remainders Game
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
So It's Times!
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
How will you decide which way of flipping over and/or turning the grid will give you the highest total?
More Magic Potting Sheds
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The number of plants in Mr McGregor's magic potting shed increases overnight. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of his gardens, planting one garden each day. How can he do it?
Factorial
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
How many zeros are there at the end of the number which is the product of first hundred positive integers?
Vedic Sutra - All from 9 and Last from 10
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Vedic Sutra is one of many ancient Indian sutras which involves a cross subtraction method. Can you give a good explanation of WHY it works?
Integrated Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
This Sudoku puzzle can be solved with the help of small clue-numbers on the border lines between pairs of neighbouring squares of the grid.
Repeaters
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
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.
Number Rules - OK
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
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...
Expenses
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
What is the largest number which, when divided into 1905, 2587, 3951, 7020 and 8725 in turn, leaves the same remainder each time?
A Chance to Win?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Imagine you were given the chance to win some money... and imagine you had nothing to lose...
One O Five
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
You can work out the number someone else is thinking of as follows. Ask a friend to think of any natural number less than 100. Then ask them to tell you the remainders when this number is divided by. . . .
What Is the Question?
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
These pictures and answers leave the viewer with the problem "What is the Question". Can you give the question and how the answer follows?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.