There are three sets of dominoes of different colours. How can you put the dominoes from all three sets into a chain (according to the rules of the game) so that every two neighbouring dominoes are of a different colour?
How many ways can I schedule the first round of the Russian Football Championship, in which 16 teams are playing? (It is important to note who is the host team).
A convex polygon on a plane contains no fewer than \(m^2+1\) points with whole number co-ordinates. Prove that within the polygon there are \(m+1\) points with whole number co-ordinates that lie on a single straight line.
Prove that there is no polyhedron that has exactly seven edges.
A straight corridor of length 100 m is covered with 20 rugs that have a total length of 1 km. The width of each rug is equal to the width of the corridor. What is the longest possible total length of corridor that is not covered by a rug?
In honor of the March 8 holiday, a competition of performances was organized. Two performances reached the final. \(N\) students of the 5th grade played in the first one and \(n\) students of the 4th grade played in the second one. The performance was attended by \(2n\) mothers of all \(2n\) students. The best performance is chosen by a vote of the mothers. It is known that half of the mothers vote honestly, i.e. for the performance that was truly better and the mothers of the other half in any case vote for the performance in which their child participates.
a) Find the probability of the best performance winning by a majority of votes.
b) The same question but this time more than two performances made it to the final.
On the grid paper, Theresa drew a rectangle \(199 \times 991\) with all sides on the grid lines and vertices on intersection of grid lines. How many cells of the grid paper are crossed by a diagonal of this rectangle?
The school cafeteria offers three varieties of pancakes and five different toppings. How many different pancakes with toppings can Emmanuel order? He has to have exactly one topping on each pancake.
How many six-digit numbers are there whose digits all have the same parity? That is, either all six digits are even, or all six digits are odd.
Donald’s sister Maggie goes to a nursery. One day the teacher at the nursery asked Maggie and the other children to stand a circle. When Maggie came home she told Donald that it was very funny that in the circle every child held hands with either two girls or two boys. Given that there were five boys standing in the circle, how many girls were standing in the circle?