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Four people discussed the answer to a task.

Harry said: “This is the number 9”.

Ben: “This is a prime number.”

Katie: “This is an even number.”

And Natasha said that this number is divisible by 15.

One boy and one girl answered correctly, and the other two made a mistake. What is the actual answer to the question?

Peter recorded an example of an addition on a board, after which he replaced some digits with letters, with the same figures being replaced with the same letters, and different figures with different letters. He did it such that he was left with the sum: \(CROSS + 2011 = START\). Prove that Peter made a mistake.

Several football teams are taking part in a football tournament, where each team plays every other team exactly once. Prove that at any point in the tournament there will be two teams who have played exactly the same number of matches up to that point.

A \(3\times 3\) square is filled with the numbers \(-1, 0, +1\). Prove that two of the 8 sums in all directions – each row, column, and diagonal – will be equal.