Problems

Find three different natural numbers, larger than \(100\) such that each of them is divisible by the difference of the other two numbers? The values of differences also have to be different from each other.

Divide 15 walnuts into four groups, each group consisting of a different whole number of nuts.

In the following example with fractions replace “stars” with different natural numbers in order to obtain an identity: \[\frac{1}{*}+\frac{1}{*}=\frac{1}{*}+\frac{1}{*}.\]

Looking back at Example 12.1 what if we additionally require all differences to be less than the smallest of the three numbers?

(a) Divide 55 walnuts into four groups consisting of different number of nuts.

(b) Divide 999 walnuts into four groups consisting of different number of nuts.

Replace "stars" with different natural numbers in order to obtain an identity:
\[\frac{1}{*}+\frac{1}{*}+\frac{1}{*}=\frac{1}{*}+\frac{1}{*}+\frac{1}{*};\]

George knows a representation of number “8” as the sum of its divisors in which only divisor “1” appears twice: \[8=4+2+1+1.\] His brother showed George that such representation exists for number “16” as well: \[16=8+4+2+1+1.\] He apologies for forgetting an example considering number “32” but he is sure once he saw such representation for this number.

(a) Help George to work out a suitable representation for number “32”;

(b) Can you think of a number which has such representation consisting of 7 terms?

(c) Of 11 terms?

(d) Can you find a number which can be represented as a sum of its divisors which are all different (pay attention that we don’t allow repeating digit “1” twice!)?

(e) What if we require this representation to consist of 11 terms?

Two figures are said to be similar if all their corresponding sides are congruent and corresponding angles are equal. By using several copies of the figure below construct a bigger figure that is similar.

George claims that he knows two numbers such that their quotient is equal to their product. Can we believe him? Prove him wrong or provide a suitable example.

Can Jennifer draw an octagon and a line passing through two of its vertices in such a way that this line cuts a 10-gon from it?