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Year 11+ Working systematically

Shopping Basket
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Shopping basket

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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The items in the shopping basket add and multiply to give the same amount. What could their prices be?

Parabolic Patterns
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Parabolic patterns

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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The illustration shows the graphs of fifteen functions. Two of them have equations $y=x^2$ and $y=-(x-4)^2$. Find the equations of all the other graphs.

Expenses
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Expenses

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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What is the largest number which, when divided into 1905, 2587, 3951, 7020 and 8725 in turn, leaves the same remainder each time?
Squirty
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Squirty

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Using a ruler, pencil and compasses only, it is possible to construct a square inside any triangle so that all four vertices touch the sides of the triangle.

Difference Sudoku
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Difference Sudoku

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Use the differences to find the solution to this Sudoku.