Simultaneous equations

There are 55 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Simultaneous equations
How Many Balls?
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How many balls?

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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A bag contains red and blue balls. You are told the probabilities of drawing certain combinations of balls. Find how many red and how many blue balls there are in the bag.
Pair Squares
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Pair squares

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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The sum of any two of the numbers 2, 34 and 47 is a perfect square. Choose three square numbers and find sets of three integers with this property. Generalise to four integers.
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.
Escriptions
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Escriptions

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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For any right-angled triangle find the radii of the three escribed circles touching the sides of the triangle externally.
Quadruple Clue Sudoku
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Quadruple clue sudoku

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Four numbers on an intersection that need to be placed in the surrounding cells. That is all you need to know to solve this sudoku.
Colour Islands Sudoku
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Colour islands sudoku

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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An extra constraint means this Sudoku requires you to think in diagonals as well as horizontal and vertical lines and boxes of nine.
Double time
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Double time

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Crack this code which depends on taking pairs of letters and using two simultaneous relations and modulus arithmetic to encode the message.
Another Quadruple Clue Sudoku
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Another quadruple clue sudoku

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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This is a variation of sudoku which contains a set of special clue-numbers. Each set of 4 small digits stands for the numbers in the four cells of the grid adjacent to this set.
Nine, Ten and One
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Nine, ten and one

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you find the value of t in these equations?