a) What is the minimum number of pieces of wire needed in order to weld a cube’s frame?
b) What is the maximum length of a piece of wire that can be cut from this frame? (The length of the edge of the cube is 1 cm).
Find the last digit of the number \(1 \times 2 + 2 \times 3 + \dots + 999 \times 1000\).
Is the number 12345678926 square?
There are 100 notes of two types: \(a\) and \(b\) pounds, and \(a \neq b \pmod {101}\). Prove that you can select several bills so that the amount received (in pounds) is divisible by 101.
If a salary is first increased by 20%, and then reduced by 20%, will the salary paid increase or decrease as a result?
Arrange in a row the numbers from 1 to 100 so that any two neighbouring ones differ by at least 50.
An \(8 \times 8\) square is painted in two colours. You can repaint any \(1 \times 3\) rectangle in its predominant colour. Prove that such operations can make the whole square monochrome.
Some person \(A\) thought of a number from 1 to 15. Some person \(B\) asks some questions to which you can answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Can \(B\) guess the number by asking a) 4 questions; b) 3 questions.
a) In a group of 4 people, who speak different languages, any three of them can communicate with one another; perhaps by one translating for two others. Prove that it is always possible to split them into pairs so that the two members of every pair have a common language.
b) The same, but for a group of 100 people.
c) The same, but for a group of 102 people.
The numbers from 1 to 9999 are written out in a row. How can I remove 100 digits from this row so that the remaining number is a) maximal b) minimal?