A council of 2,000 deputies decided to approve a state budget containing 200 items of expenditure. Each deputy prepared his draft budget, which indicated for each item the maximum allowable, in his opinion, amount of expenditure, ensuring that the total amount of expenditure did not exceed the set value of \(S\). For each item, the board approves the largest amount of expenditure that is agreed to be allocated by no fewer than \(k\) deputies. What is the smallest value of \(k\) for which we can ensure that the total amount of approved expenditures does not exceed \(S\)?
Two people had two square cakes. Each person made 2 straight cuts from edge to edge on their cake. After doing this, one person ended up with three pieces, and the other with four. How could this be?
How can you divide a pancake with three straight sections into 4, 5, 6, 7 parts?
What is the maximum number of pieces that a round pancake can be divided into with three straight cuts?
In Neverland, there are magic laws of nature, one of which reads: “A magic carpet will fly only when it has a rectangular shape.” Frosty the Snowman had a magic carpet measuring \(9 \times 12\). One day, the Grinch crept up and cut off a small rug of size \(1 \times 8\) from this carpet. Frosty was very upset and wanted to cut off another \(1 \times 4\) piece to make a rectangle of \(8 \times 12\), but the Wise Owl suggested that he act differently. Instead he cut the carpet into three parts, of which a square magic carpet with a size of \(10 \times 10\) could be sown with magic threads. Can you guess how the Wise Owl restructured the ruined carpet?
Fill the free cells of the “hexagon” (see the figure) with integers from 1 to 19 so that in all vertical and diagonal rows the sum of the numbers, in the same row, is the same.
In a room, there are three-legged stools and four-legged chairs. When people sat down on all of these seats, there were 39 legs (human and stool/chair legs) in the room. How many stools are there in the room?
In the gymnasium, all students know at least one of the ancient languages – Greek or Latin, some – both languages. 85% of all children know the Greek language and 75% know Latin. How many students know both languages?
Before the start of the Olympics, the price of hockey pucks went up by 10%, and after the end of the Olympics they fell by 10%.
When were the pucks more expensive – before the price rise or after the fall?
Six chess players participated in a tournament. Each two participants of the tournament played one game against each other. How many games were played? How many games did each participant play? How many points did the chess players collect all together?