Powers and roots

  • Golden Eggs
    problem

    Golden eggs

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Find a connection between the shape of a special ellipse and an infinite string of nested square roots.
  • Fibonacci Fashion
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    Fibonacci fashion

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    What have Fibonacci numbers to do with solutions of the quadratic equation x^2 - x - 1 = 0 ?
  • Pythagorean Fibs
    problem

    Pythagorean fibs

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    What have Fibonacci numbers got to do with Pythagorean triples?
  • Maundy Money
    problem

    Maundy money

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    How much money did the Queen give away in pence as a power of 2?
  • Age of Augustus
    problem

    Age of augustus

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    The English mathematician Augustus de Morgan has given his age in algebraic terms. Can you work out when he was born?
  • Near 10
    problem

    Near 10

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    10 must remain within easy reach...
  • Powerful Order
    problem

    Powerful order

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Powers of numbers might look large, but which of these is the largest...
  • Googol
    problem

    Googol

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Find the smallest value for which a particular sequence is greater than a googol.
  • Rational Roots
    problem

    Rational roots

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Given that a, b and c are natural numbers show that if sqrt a+sqrt b is rational then it is a natural number. Extend this to 3 variables.
  • Root to Poly
    problem

    Root to poly

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Find the polynomial p(x) with integer coefficients such that one solution of the equation p(x)=0 is $1+\sqrt 2+\sqrt 3$.