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?
a) There are 21 coins on a table with the tails side facing upwards. In one operation, you are allowed to turn over any 20 coins. Is it possible to achieve the arrangement were all coins are facing with the heads side upwards in a few operations?
b) The same question, if there are 20 coins, but you are allowed to turn over 19.
Prove that no straight line can cross all three sides of a triangle, at points away from the vertices.
Nick has written in some order all the numbers \(1,2,...33\) at the vertices of a regular \(33\)-gon. His little sister Hannah assigned to each side of the \(33\)-gon the number equal to the sum of the numbers at the ends of that side. It turns out that Hannah obtained \(33\) consecutive numbers in certain order. Can you find an arrangement of numbers as written by Nick which lead to this situation?
Is it possible to arrange the numbers \(1,\, 2,\, ...,\, 50\) at the vertices and middles of the sides of a regular \(25\)-gon so that the sum of the three numbers at the ends and in the middle of each side is the same for all sides?
There are 8 students in an online chess club. Show that some two of them were born on the same day of the week.
Ramesh has an infinite number of red, blue and green socks in his drawer. How many socks does he need to pick from the drawer at random to guarantee he will have at least one pair of socks of one colour?
There are \(6\) people playing a game online together. Among any \(3\) people at least \(2\) people know each other. Show that there is a group of \(3\) people that all know each other.
On a certain planet the time zones can only differ by a multiple of \(1\) hour and their day is divided into hours in the same way Earth’s day is divided into hours. Show that if we pick \(25\) cities on that planet, some two cities will have the same local time.
The bag contains balls of two different colours: black and white. What is the smallest number of balls that need to be taken out of the bag blindly so that among them there are obviously two balls of the same colour?