Inequalities

  • Jute bag with marbles of different colours spilling out.
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    Inequalities

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    A bag contains 12 marbles. There are more red than green but green and blue together exceed the reds. The total of yellow and green marbles is more than the total of red and blue. How many of each colour there are in the bag?

  • A gold gift box with a ribbon.
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    Plutarch's Boxes

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    According to Plutarch, the Greeks found all the rectangles with integer sides, whose areas are equal to their perimeters. Can you find them? What rectangular boxes, with integer sides, have their surface areas equal to their volumes?

  • All-Variables Sudoku
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    All-Variables Sudoku

    Age
    11 to 18
    Challenge level
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    The challenge is to find the values of the variables if you are to solve this Sudoku.

  • Rationals Between...
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    Rationals Between...

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    What fractions can you find between the square roots of 65 and 67?
  • Mediant madness
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    Mediant Madness

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Kyle and his teacher disagree about his test score - who is right?
  • Not Continued Fractions
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    Not Continued Fractions

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Which rational numbers cannot be written in the form x + 1/(y + 1/z) where x, y and z are integers?
  • ' Tis Whole
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    'tis Whole

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Take a few whole numbers away from a triangle number. If you know the mean of the remaining numbers can you find the triangle number and which numbers were removed?

  • Shades of Fermat's Last Theorem
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    Shades of Fermat's Last Theorem

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    The familiar Pythagorean 3-4-5 triple gives one solution to (x-1)^n + x^n = (x+1)^n so what about other solutions for x an integer and n= 2, 3, 4 or 5?

  • Big, Bigger, Biggest
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    Big, Bigger, Biggest

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Which is the biggest and which the smallest of $2000^{2002}, 2001^{2001} \text{and } 2002^{2000}$?

  • Tetra Inequalities
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    Tetra Inequalities

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you prove that in every tetrahedron there is a vertex where the three edges meeting at that vertex have lengths which could be the sides of a triangle?