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Found: 2018

Is it possible to colour the cells of a \(3\times 3\) board red and yellow such that there are the same number of red cells and yellow cells?

Prove the divisibility rule for \(25\): a number is divisible by \(25\) if and only if the number made by the last two digits of the original number is divisible by \(25\);
Can you come up with a divisibility rule for \(125\)?

Which of the following numbers are divisible by \(11\) and which are not? \[121,\, 143,\, 286, 235, \, 473,\, 798, \, 693,\, 576, \,748\] Can you write down and prove a divisibility rule which helps to determine if a three digit number is divisible by \(11\)?

Sometimes one can guess certain multiples of a number just by looking at it, the idea of this sheet is to learn to recognise quickly using tricks when a natural number is divisible by another number.

Today we will study the method of finding the amount of combinations, or consecutive actions, or ways to select items from a bag which is called the Product rule. The main idea of this combinatorial is the following: if you are asked to perform an action that can be done in, say \(5\) ways and another action afterwards that can be done in \(4\) ways, then the total number of possibilities to perform two consecutive actions would be equal to \(5\times 4\). The reason for this is the opportunity to choose \(4\) possible second actions for each of the \(5\) choices of the first action already made before.

In how many ways can eight rooks be arranged on the chessboard in such a way that none of them can take any other. The color of the rooks does not matter, it’s everyone against everyone.

How many five-digit numbers are there which are written in the same from left to right and from right to left? For example the numbers \(54345\) and \(12321\) satisfy the condition, but the numbers \(23423\) and \(56789\) do not.

There are six letters in the alphabet of the Bim-Bam tribe. A word is any sequence of six letters that has at least two identical letters. How many words are there in the language of the Bim-Bam tribe?

A coin is tossed six times. How many different sequences of heads and tails can you get?

Each cell of a \(3 \times 3\) square can be painted either black, or white, or grey. How many different ways are there to colour in this table?