Using five fives, arithmetic operations and exponentiation, form the numbers from 1 to 17.
Using five sixes, arithmetic operations and exponentiation, form the numbers from 1 to 14.
Using five sevens, arithmetic operations and exponentiation, form the numbers from 1 to 22.
Using five eights, arithmetic operations and exponentiation, form the numbers from 1 to 20.
Using five nines, arithmetic operations and exponentiation, form the numbers from 1 to 13.
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?
Find all of the natural numbers that, when divided by 7, have the same remainder and quotient.
a) Prove that within any 6 whole numbers there will be two that have a difference between them that is a multiple of 5.
b) Will this statement remain true if instead of the difference we considered the total?
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?
Two classes with the same number of students took a test. Having checked the test, the strict teacher Mr Jones said that he gave out 13 more twos than other marks (where the marks range from 2 to 5 and 5 is the highest). Was Mr Jones right?