The Ultimate Mathematical Challenge: Over 365 puzzles to test your wits and excite your mind

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2018

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121. Mr Gallop’s ponies

Mr Gallop has two stables that each initially housed three ponies. His prize pony, Rein Beau, is worth £250 000. Rein Beau usually spends his day in the small stable, but when he wandered across into the large stable, Mr Gallop was surprised to find that the average value of the ponies in each stable rose by £10 000.

What is the total value of all six ponies?

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122. Making a square

I have two types of square tile. One type has a side length of 1 cm and the other has a side length of 2 cm.

What is the smallest square that can be made with equal numbers of each type of tile?

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123. How many pairs?

How many pairs of digits (p, q) are there so that the five-digit integer ‘p869q’ is a multiple of 15?

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124. What is the product?

Lucy wants to put the numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 into the circles so that the products of the three numbers along each edge are the same, and as large as possible.

In how many ways can this be done?

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125. A five-team league

Five teams played in a competition and every team played once against each of the other four teams. Each team received three points for a match it won, one point for a match it drew and no points for a match it lost.

At the end of the competition the points were as follows:

How many of the matches resulted in a draw?

What were the results of the Greens’ matches against the other teams?

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126. A mini crossnumber

The solution to each clue of this crossnumber is a two-digit number, not beginning with zero.

Across

1. A triangular number

3. A triangular number

Down

1. A square

2. A multiple of 5

In how many different ways can the crossnumber be completed correctly?

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Shuttle Challenge 2 (#ulink_85f08238-e567-578f-bc49-24130ecd3c2e)

See Shuttle Challenge 1 (#ulink_8de49faa-6f29-52c5-b5c7-cc0f65138e16) for how the Shuttle works.

Question 1

What is the value of

?

Question 2

[A is the answer to Question 1.]

The number A is an example of a palindromic integer – one that is unchanged when the order of its digits is reversed.

How many palindromic integers are there from 300 to A inclusive?

Question 3

[A is the answer to Question 2.]

The diagram shows a triangle drawn on a square grid made up of nine smaller squares.

The area of the shaded triangle is A cm

.

What is the area, in cm

, of one of the smaller squares?

Question 4

[A is the answer to Question 3.]