Wednesday, November 24, 2021

The Stripey Triangle Problem

A triangle is divided into 7 stripes, all the same width and all parallel to the base.  If the small purple triangle at the tip has an area of 3 square units, then what is the area of the largest triangle (the whole thing)?




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Tuesday, November 9, 2021

The Consecutive Number Problem

Ginger writes down a sequence of numbers. Each is a positive whole number from 1 to 11, and she uses each number only once. Henrietta looks at the sequence and notices that for every pair of numbers next to each other in the sequence, one is divisible by the other. What is the maximum number of numbers that Ginger wrote down?



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Sunday, November 7, 2021

The Rolling Cube Problem

Cubes that are freshly painted with blue and yellow paint roll along a table and leave paint behind on the table.


Which of the paint trails above could have been made by a cube whose faces were painted with blue and yellow paint?


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PLAYFUL MATH BLOG CARNIVAL #163

BLOG CARNIVAL #163....LET'S GO! Fun fact: The number 163 is prime, which we can prove simply by showing that it is not divisible by 2, 3...