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The crafty British pirate, Blackbeard (Spaniards called him Barbanegra), had a keen mind for mathematics. The following are excerpts from a diary found in a…
Find 3 positive integers x, y and z which satisfy this equation: Using this solution, find a different solution by changing one and only one…
Beaumaris castle in Wales was the largest of the Welsh castles built by King Edward I (r. 1272-1307) Construction began in 1295, but was never…
Frogs have a saying: “The Other Lily Pad Is Always Greener”. Some green and yellow frogs were arguing about this until they agreed that they…
On a cold winter evening, Olive, the green tetrahedron said to her identical quadruplet sisters “It’s so cold that my vertices are numb, my edges…
The Dragon of Ignorance has three heads and three tails. You can slay it with the Sword of Knowledge, by chopping off all its heads…
On Thursday January 20th the Pocono Mountain region experienced the first big snow storm of the new millennium. Many schools closed because of the slippery…
There is a number 6 on the tip of the triangle. Arrange the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 such that the sum of…
Coyotes demarcate their territory by peeing on bushes, rocks, shrubs, cacti, trees, and anything else that is lying around. It is tiring, never-ending work. That…
Write 1’s and 2’s in the circles so that no three consecutive numbers sum to a multiple of three. Extensions: There are four solutions to…