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Is it possible to cut this figure, called "camel"

  • a) along the grid lines;

  • b) not necessarily along the grid lines;

into 3 parts, which you can use to build a square?
(We give you several copies to facilitate drawing)
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The triangle ABC is equilateral. The point K is chosen on the side AB and points L and M are on the side BC in such a way that L lies on the segment BM. We have the following properties: KL=KM, BL=2,AK=3. Find the length of CM.
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Find the representation of (a+b)n as the sum of Xn,kakbnk for general n. Here by Xn,k we denote coefficients that depend only on k and n.

The positive real numbers a,b,c,x,y satisfy the following system of equations: {x2+xy+y2=a2y2+yz+z2=b2x2+xz+z2=c2

Find the value of xy+yz+xz in terms of a,b, and c.

This is a famous problem, called Monty Hall problem after a popular TV show in America.
In the problem, you are on a game show, being asked to choose between three doors. Behind each door, there is either a car or a goat. You choose a door. The host, Monty Hall, picks one of the other doors, which he knows has a goat behind it, and opens it, showing you the goat. (You know, by the rules of the game, that Monty will always reveal a goat.) Monty then asks whether you would like to switch your choice of door to the other remaining door. Assuming you prefer having a car more than having a goat, do you choose to switch or not to switch?
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Find a representation as a product of a2n+1+b2n+1 for general a,b,n.

Find all the prime numbers p such that there exist natural numbers x and y for which px=y3+1.

Find all natural numbers n for which there exist integers a,b,c such that a+b+c=0 and the number an+bn+cn is prime.

The dragon locked six dwarves in the cave and said, "I have seven caps of the seven colors of the rainbow. Tomorrow morning I will blindfold you and put a cap on each of you, and hide one cap. Then I’ll take off the blindfolds, and you can see the caps on the heads of others, but not your own and I won’t let you talk any more. After that, everyone will secretly tell me the color of the hidden cap. If at least three of you guess right, I’ll let you all go. If less than three guess correctly, I’ll eat you all for lunch." How can dwarves agree in advance to act in order to be saved?

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?