Multiplication and division

  • Factoring factorials
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    Factoring Factorials

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Find the highest power of 11 that will divide into 1000! exactly.

  • One O Five
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    One O Five

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    You can work out the number someone else is thinking of as follows. Ask a friend to think of any natural number less than 100. Then ask them to tell you the remainders when this number is divided by 3, 5 and by 7...

  • Powerful factorial
    problem

    Powerful Factorial

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    6! = 6 × 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 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!?

  • Please Explain
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    Please Explain

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Visitors to Earth from the distant planet of Zub-Zorna were amazed when they found out that when the digits in this multiplication were reversed, the answer was the same! Find a way to explain why this works.

  • Plastic human skeleton on a blue background.
    problem

    Skeleton

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Can you reconstruct the long division calculation from the 'skeleton'?

  • What is the question?
    problem

    What Is the Question?

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3
    These pictures and answers leave the viewer with the problem "What is the Question". Can you give the question and how the answer follows?
  • Times right
    problem

    Times Right

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, mulitply a two two digit numbers are multiplied to give a four digit number, so that the expression is correct. How many different solutions can you find?

  • Factorial
    problem

    Factorial

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    How many zeros are there at the end of the number which is the product of first hundred positive integers?

  • Vedic Sutra - All from 9 and last from 10
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    Vedic Sutra - All From 9 and Last From 10

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Vedic Sutra is one of many ancient Indian sutras which involves a cross subtraction method. Can you give a good explanation of WHY it works?

  • Galley Division
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    Galley Division

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3
    Can you explain how Galley Division works?