Factors and multiples

There are 243 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Factors and multiples
Power Crazy
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Power Crazy

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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What can you say about the values of n that make $7^n + 3^n$ a multiple of 10? Are there other pairs of integers between 1 and 10 which have similar properties?
Powerful factorial
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Powerful factorial

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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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!?
Great Granddad
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Great Granddad

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Great Granddad is very proud of his telegram from the Queen congratulating him on his hundredth birthday and he has friends who are even older than he is... When was he born?
Eminit
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Eminit

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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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?
Cogs
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Cogs

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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A and B are two interlocking cogwheels having p teeth and q teeth respectively. One tooth on B is painted red. Find the values of p and q for which the red tooth on B contacts every gap on the cogwheel A as the wheels rotate.
Even So
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Even So

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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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?
Factoring a million
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Factoring a million

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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In how many ways can the number 1 000 000 be expressed as the product of three positive integers?
American Billions
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American Billions

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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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
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Hot Pursuit

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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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...
One to Eight
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One to Eight

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Complete the following expressions so that each one gives a four digit number as the product of two two digit numbers and uses the digits 1 to 8 once and only once.