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The city plan is a rectangle of \(5 \times 10\) cells. On the streets, a one-way traffic system is introduced: it is allowed to go only to the right and upwards. How many different routes lead from the bottom left corner to the upper right?

27 coins are given, of which one is a fake, and it is known that a counterfeit coin is lighter than a real one. How can the counterfeit coin be found from 3 weighings on the scales without weights?

There are two purses and one coin. Inside the first purse is one coin, and inside the second purse is one coin. How can this be?

Find the largest value of the expression \(a + b + c + d - ab - bc - cd - da\), if each of the numbers \(a\), \(b\), \(c\) and \(d\) belongs to the interval \([0, 1]\).

To a certain number, we add the sum of its digits and the answer we get is 2014. Give an example of such a number.

It is known that \(AA + A = XYZ\). What is the last digit of the product: \(B \times C \times D \times D \times C \times E \times F \times G\) (where different letters denote different digits, identical letters denote identical digits)?

The pupils of class 5A had a total of 2015 pencils. One of them lost a box with five pencils, and instead bought a box with 50 pencils. How many pencils do the pupils of class 5A now have?