Year P16 Being resourceful

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    Shopping Basket

    Age
    11 to 16
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    The items in the shopping basket add and multiply to give the same amount. What could their prices be?

  • Expenses
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    Expenses

    Age
    14 to 16
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    What is the largest number which, when divided into these five numbers in turn, leaves the same remainder each time?

  • Perfectly Square
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    Perfectly Square

    Age
    14 to 16
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    The sums of the squares of three related numbers is also a perfect square - can you explain why?

  • Areas of parallelograms
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    Areas of Parallelograms

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Can you find the area of a parallelogram defined by two vectors?

  • Trapezium Four
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    Trapezium Four

    Age
    14 to 16
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    The diagonals of a trapezium divide it into four parts. Can you create a trapezium where three of those parts are equal in area?

  • Mathsland National Lottery
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    Mathsland National Lottery

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Can you work out the probability of winning the Mathsland National Lottery?

  • Two blank square picture frames on a wooden floor.
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    2-Digit Square

    Age
    14 to 16
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    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?

  • Hexy-Metry
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    Hexy-Metry

    Age
    14 to 16
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    A hexagon, with sides alternately a and b units in length, is inscribed in a circle. How big is the radius of the circle?

  • Difference Sudoku
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    Difference Sudoku

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Use the differences to find the solution to this Sudoku.

  • Parabolic Patterns
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    Parabolic Patterns

    Age
    14 to 18
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    The illustration shows the graphs of fifteen functions. Two of them have equations $y=x^2$ and $y=-(x-4)^2$. Find the equations of all the other graphs.