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2023-12-08
In November, I spent some time (with help from TD) designing this year's Chalkdust puzzle Christmas card.
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The card looks boring at first glance, but contains 10 puzzles. By colouring in the answers to the puzzles on the front of the card in the colours given (each answer appears four time),
you will reveal a Christmas themed picture.
If you're in the UK and want some copies of the card to send to your maths-loving friends, you can order them at mscroggs.co.uk/cards.
If you want to try the card yourself, you can download this printable A4 pdf. Alternatively, you can find the puzzles below and type the answers in the boxes. The answers will automatically be found and coloured in...
Green | ||
| 1. | What is the largest value of \(n\) such that \((n!-1)/(n-1)\) is an integer? | Answer |
| 2. | What is the largest value of \(n\) such that \((n!-44)/(n-44)\) is an integer? | Answer |
Red/blue | ||
| 3. | Holly adds up the first 7 even numbers, then adds on half of the next even number. What total does she get? | Answer |
| 4. | Holly adds up the first \(n\) even numbers, then adds on half of the next even number. Her total was 9025. What is \(n\)? | Answer |
Brown | ||
| 5. | What is the area of the quadrilateral with the largest area that will fit inside a circle with area 20π? | Answer |
| 6. | What is the area of the dodecagon with the largest area that will fit inside a circle with area 20π? | Answer |
| 7. | How many 3-digit positive integers are there whose digits are all 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 with exactly two digits that are ones? | Answer |
| 8. | Eve works out that there are 300 \(n\)-digit positive integers whose digits are all 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 with exactly \(n-1\) digits that are ones. What is \(n\)? | Answer |
| 9. | What are the last two digits of \(7^3\)? | Answer |
| 10. | What are the last two digits of \(7^{9876543210}\)? | Answer |
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2023-12-29
My visual abilities fail me - managed to solve the puzzles but cannot see what the picture showsGantonian
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