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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?

A chord of a circle is a straight line between two points on the circumference of the circle. Is it possible to draw five chords on a circle in such a way that there is a pentagon and two quadrilaterals among the parts into which these chords divide the circle?

There are \(20\) chairs in the room, which come in two colors: blue and red. Each chair is occupied by either a knight or a liar. Knights always tell the truth, while liars always lie. Initially, each of those seated claimed to be sitting on a blue chair. Then, they switched seats, after which half of the participants asserted that they were now sitting on blue chairs, while the other half claimed to be sitting on red ones. How many knights are currently occupying red chairs?

All the positive fractions smaller than \(1\) with denominators not more than \(100\) are written in a row. Isley and Ella put signs \("+"\) or \("-"\) in front of any fraction, which does not yet have a sign before it. They write signs in turns, but it is known that Isley has to make the last move and calculate the resulting sum. If the total sum turns out to be an integer number, then Ella will give her a chocolate bar. Will Isley be able to get a chocolate bar regardless of Ella’s actions?

Abigail’s little brother Carson found a big rectangular cake in the fridge and cut a small rectangular piece out of it.
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Now Abigail needs to find a way to cut the remaining cake into two pieces of equal area with only one straight cut. How could she do that? The removed piece can be of any size or orientation.

Is it possible to cut an equilateral triangle into three equal hexagons?

Michael used different numbers \(\{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9\}\) to put in the circles in the picture below, without using any one of them twice. Inside each triangle he wrote down either the sum or the product of the numbers at its vertices. Then he erased the numbers in the circles. Which numbers need to be written in circles so that the condition is satisfied?
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A labyrinth was drawn on a \(5\times 5\) grid square with an outer wall and an exit one cell wide, as well as with inner walls running along the grid lines. In the picture, we have hidden all the inner walls from you (We give you several copies to facilitate drawing) imageimageimage
Please draw how the walls were arranged. Keep in mind that the numbers in the cells represent the smallest number of steps needed to exit the maze, starting from that cell. A step can be taken to any adjacent cell vertically or horizontally, but not diagonally (and only if there is no wall between them, of course).