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  • Perfectly Square
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    Perfectly Square

    Age
    14 to 16
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    The sums of the squares of three related numbers is also a perfect square - can you explain why?

  • Mega Quadratic Equations
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    Mega Quadratic Equations

    Age
    14 to 18
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    What do you get when you raise a quadratic to the power of a quadratic?

  • Negative 3 to the power of negative 3.
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    Negative Powers

    Age
    14 to 18
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    What does this number mean? Which order of 1, 2, 3 and 4 makes the highest value? Which makes the lowest?

  • How Many Solutions?
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    How Many Solutions?

    Age
    16 to 18
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    Find all the solutions to the this equation.

  • Sums of Squares
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    Sums of Squares

    Age
    16 to 18
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    Can you prove that twice the sum of two squares always gives the sum of two squares?

  • Telescoping series
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    Telescoping Series

    Age
    16 to 18
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    Find $S_r = 1^r + 2^r + 3^r + ... + n^r$ where r is any fixed positive integer in terms of $S_1, S_2, ... S_{r-1}$.

  • Climbing Powers
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    Climbing Powers

    Age
    16 to 18
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    Does it make any difference how we write powers of powers? 

  • Giants
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    Giants

    Age
    16 to 18
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    Which is the bigger, 9^10 or 10^9 ? Which is the bigger, 99^100 or 100^99 ?

  • Tens
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    Tens

    Age
    16 to 18
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    When is $7^n + 3^n$ a multiple of 10? Can you prove the result by two different methods?
  • Novemberish
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    Novemberish

    Age
    14 to 16
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    a) A four digit number (in base 10) aabb is a perfect square. Discuss ways of systematically finding this number. (b) Prove that 11^{10}-1 is divisible by 100.