Chocolate bars come in boxes of 5 or boxes of 12. How many boxes do you need to have exactly 2005 chocolate bars?
Each time a class lines up in different sized groups, a different number of people are left over. How large can the class be?
You have worked out a secret code with a friend. Every letter in the alphabet can be represented by a binary value.
When coins are put into piles of six 3 remain and in piles of eight 7 remain. How many remain when they are put into piles of 24?
From only the page numbers on one sheet of newspaper, can you work out how many sheets there are altogether?
Take any pair of numbers, say 9 and 14. Take the larger number, fourteen, and count up in 14s. Then divide each of those values by the 9, and look at the remainders.
Find the values of n for which 1^n + 8^n - 3^n - 6^n is divisible by 6.
The nth term of a sequence is given by the formula n^3 + 11n. Find the first four terms of the sequence given by this formula and the first term of the sequence which is bigger than one million. Prove that all terms of the sequence are divisible by 6.
Find all 3 digit numbers such that by adding the first digit, the square of the second and the cube of the third you get the original number, for example 1 + 3^2 + 5^3 = 135.
Find and explain a short and neat proof that 5^(2n+1) + 11^(2n+1) + 17^(2n+1) is divisible by 33 for every non negative integer n.
