Other tags that relate to Can You Make 100?
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Broad Topics > Numbers and the Number System > Factors and multiples
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?
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?
Stars
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you find a relationship between the number of dots on the circle and the number of steps that will ensure that all points are hit?
Ben's Game
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Ben passed a third of his counters to Jack, Jack passed a quarter of his counters to Emma and Emma passed a fifth of her counters to Ben. After this they all had the same number of counters.
Cuboids
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find a cuboid (with edges of integer values) that has a surface area of exactly 100 square units. Is there more than one? Can you find them all?
Factoring Factorials
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find the highest power of 11 that will divide into 1000! exactly.
What a Joke
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Each letter represents a different positive digit AHHAAH / JOKE = HA What are the values of each of the letters?
Got It
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
A game for two people, or play online. Given a target number, say 23, and a range of numbers to choose from, say 1-4, players take it in turns to add to the running total to hit their target.
Can You Find a Perfect Number?
Age 7 to 14
Can you find any perfect numbers? Read this article to find out more...
Inclusion Exclusion
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
How many integers between 1 and 1200 are NOT multiples of any of the numbers 2, 3 or 5?
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?
Different by One
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you make lines of Cuisenaire rods that differ by 1?
Even So
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
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?
American Billions
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
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...
Hot Pursuit
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
I added together the first 'n' positive integers and found that my answer was a 3 digit number in which all the digits were the same...
Three Times Seven
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A three digit number abc is always divisible by 7 when 2a+3b+c is divisible by 7. Why?
Big Powers
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
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.
A First Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Given the products of adjacent cells, can you complete this Sudoku?
Factor Lines
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules, to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.
Shopping Basket
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
The items in the shopping basket add and multiply to give the same amount. What could their prices be?
Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.
Data Chunks
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Data is sent in chunks of two different sizes - a yellow chunk has 5 characters and a blue chunk has 9 characters. A data slot of size 31 cannot be exactly filled with a combination of yellow and. . . .
AB Search
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The five digit number A679B, in base ten, is divisible by 72. What are the values of A and B?
Sieve of Eratosthenes
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Follow this recipe for sieving numbers and see what interesting patterns emerge.
Satisfying Statements
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you find any two-digit numbers that satisfy all of these statements?
Gabriel's Problem
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Gabriel multiplied together some numbers and then erased them. Can you figure out where each number was?
Factors and Multiples Game for Two
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Factors and Multiples game for an adult and child. How can you make sure you win this game?
Got it for Two
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Got It game for an adult and child. How can you play so that you know you will always win?
What Numbers Can We Make Now?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Imagine we have four bags containing numbers from a sequence. What numbers can we make now?
Substitution Transposed
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Substitution and Transposition all in one! How fiendish can these codes get?
Transposition Cipher
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you work out what size grid you need to read our secret message?
Factor Track
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Factor track is not a race but a game of skill. The idea is to go round the track in as few moves as possible, keeping to the rules.
Star Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
The puzzle can be solved by finding the values of the unknown digits (all indicated by asterisks) in the squares of the $9\times9$ grid.
Missing Multipliers
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
What is the smallest number of answers you need to reveal in order to work out the missing headers?
What Numbers Can We Make?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Imagine we have four bags containing a large number of 1s, 4s, 7s and 10s. What numbers can we make?
Charlie's Delightful Machine
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?
Counting Cogs
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Which pairs of cogs let the coloured tooth touch every tooth on the other cog? Which pairs do not let this happen? Why?
Mathematical Swimmer
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
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 I. . . .
Shifting Times Tables
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you find a way to identify times tables after they have been shifted up or down?
The Remainders Game
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
LCM Sudoku II
Age 11 to 18 Challenge Level:
You are given the Lowest Common Multiples of sets of digits. Find the digits and then solve the Sudoku.
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?
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?
N000ughty Thoughts
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
How many noughts are at the end of these giant numbers?
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.
Two Much
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Explain why the arithmetic sequence 1, 14, 27, 40, ... contains many terms of the form 222...2 where only the digit 2 appears.
Special Sums and Products
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find some examples of pairs of numbers such that their sum is a factor of their product. eg. 4 + 12 = 16 and 4 × 12 = 48 and 16 is a factor of 48.
Gaxinta
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
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?
Ewa's Eggs
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
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?
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