Debasing the Coinage
How much lighter will £5 worth of 5p's be with these new lighter coins?
How much lighter will £5 worth of 5p's be with these new lighter coins?
Find the number which has 8 divisors, such that the product of the divisors is 331776.
Using some or all of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and using the digits 3, 3, 8 and 8 each once and only once make an expression equal to 24.
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...
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!?
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.
This Sudoku requires you to do some working backwards before working forwards.