Being resilient

Two boats travel up and down a lake. Can you picture where they will cross if you know how fast each boat is travelling?

Jo made a cube from some smaller cubes, painted some of the faces of the large cube, and then took it apart again. 45 small cubes had no paint on them at all. How many small cubes did Jo use?

Can you work out the probability of winning the Mathsland National Lottery?

Which numbers can we write as a sum of square numbers?

Six samples were taken from two distributions but they got muddled up. Can you work out which list is which?

In this follow-up to the problem Odds and Evens, we invite you to analyse a probability situation in order to find the general solution for a fair game.

Can you explain what is going on in these puzzling number tricks?

A 1 metre cube has one face on the ground and one face against a wall. A 4 metre ladder leans against the wall and just touches the cube. How high is the top of the ladder above the ground?

Can you create a Latin Square from multiples of a six digit number?

A 2-digit number is squared. When this 2-digit number is reversed and squared, the difference between the squares is also a square. What is the 2-digit number?