Prove that it is not possible to completely cover an equilateral triangle with two smaller equilateral triangles.
51 points were thrown into a square of side 1 m. Prove that it is possible to cover some set of 3 points with a square of side 20 cm.
The total age of a group of 7 people is 332 years. Prove that it is possible to choose three members of this group so that the sum of their ages is no less than 142 years.
Prove that amongst numbers written only using the number 1, i.e.: 1, 11, 111, etc, there is a number than is divisible by 1987.
Prove that there is a power of 3 that ends in 001.
The numbers \(1, 2, \dots , 9\) are divided into three groups. Prove that the product of the numbers in one of the groups will always be no less than 72.
Some whole numbers are placed into a \(10\times 10\) table, so that the difference between any two neighbouring, horizontally or vertically adjacent, squares is no greater than 5. Prove that there will always be two identical numbers in the table.
Prove that in any group of 6 people there are either three pairs of people who know one another, or three pairs of people who do not know one another.
A warehouse contains 200 boots of each of the sizes 8, 9, and 10. Amongst these 600 boots, 300 are left boots and 300 are right boots. Prove that there are at least 100 usable pairs of boots in the warehouse.
Prove that in any group of 10 whole numbers there will be a few whose sum is divisible by 10.