Reasoning, convincing and proving

Whenever two chameleons of different colours meet they change colour to the third colour. Describe the shortest sequence of meetings in which all the chameleons change to green if you start with 12 green, 15 brown and 18 yellow chameleons.

Find the area of the annulus in terms of the length of the chord which is tangent to the inner circle.

A little bit of algebra explains this 'magic'. Ask a friend to pick 3 consecutive numbers and to tell you a multiple of 3. Then ask them to add the four numbers and multiply by 67, and to tell you the last two digits of her answer. Now you can really amaze her by giving the whole answer and the three consecutive numbers used at the start.

Prove that the shaded area of the semicircle is equal to the area of the inner circle.

Points A, B and C are the centres of three circles, each one of which touches the other two. Prove that the perimeter of the triangle ABC is equal to the diameter of the largest circle.

From a group of any 4 students in a class of 30, each has exchanged Christmas cards with the other three. Show that some students have exchanged cards with all the other students in the class. How many such students are there?

Nine cross country runners compete in a team competition in which there are three matches. If you were a judge how would you decide who would win?

Can you guarantee that, for any three numbers you choose, the product of their differences will always be an even number?