
Being curious
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problemEach of the following shapes is made from arcs of a circle of radius r. What is the perimeter of a shape with 3, 4, 5 and n "nodes".
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Blue and white
Identical squares of side one unit contain some circles shaded blue. In which of the four examples is the shaded area greatest?
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Which scripts?
There are six numbers written in five different scripts. Can you sort out which is which?
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Where can we visit?
Charlie and Abi put a counter on 42. They wondered if they could visit all the other numbers on their 1-100 board, moving the counter using just these two operations: x2 and -5. What do you think?
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What's possible?
Many numbers can be expressed as the difference of two perfect squares. What do you notice about the numbers you CANNOT make?
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How old am I?
In 15 years' time my age will be the square of my age 15 years ago. Can you work out my age, and when I had other special birthdays?
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Expenses
What is the largest number which, when divided into these five numbers in turn, leaves the same remainder each time?
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Legs eleven
Take any four digit number. Move the first digit to the end and move the rest along. Now add your two numbers. Did you get a multiple of 11?
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Doesn't add up
In this problem we are faced with an apparently easy area problem, but it has gone horribly wrong! What happened?
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Triangle midpoints
You are only given the three midpoints of the sides of a triangle. How can you construct the original triangle?