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What are the eight coins you need to take, so that you can use them to pay without change any amount from 1 pence up to 1 pound?

(In circulation at the time, there were coins of 1, 3, 5, 10, 20 and 50 pence).

It is known that in January there are four Fridays and four Mondays. What day of the week is January 1st?

How, without any means of measurement, can you measure a length of 50 cm from a shoelace, whose length is \(2/3\) meters?

Find out the principles by which the numbers are depicted in the tables (shown in the figures below) and insert the missing number into the first table, and remove the extra number from the second table.

Ten people wanted to found a club. To do this, they need to collect a certain amount of entrance fees. If the organizers were five people more, then each of them would have to pay £100 less. How much money did each one pay?

A cube with a side of 1 m was sawn into cubes with a side of 1 cm and they were in a row (along a straight line). How long was the line?

Burbot-Liman. Find the numbers that, when substituted for letters instead of the letters in the expression \(NALIM \times 4 = LIMAN\), fulfill the given equality (different letters correspond to different numbers, but identical letters correspond to identical numbers)