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Sunday Afternoon Maths XLIII

 Posted on 2015-07-19 

Ticking clock

Is there a time of day when the hands of an analogue clock (one with a second hand that moves every second instead of moving continuously) will all be 120° apart?

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Tags: angles, time

One two three

Each point on a straight line is either red or blue. Show that it's always possible to find three points of the same color in which one is the midpoint of the other two.

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Tags: colouring

Coloured pins

A bowling alley has a mixture of red and blue pins. Ten of these pins are randomly chosen and arranged in a triangle.
Will there always be three pins of the same colour which lie on the vertices of an equilateral triangle?

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Tags: colouring

Fill in the digits

Source: Chalkdust
Can you place the digits 1 to 9 in the boxes so that the three digit numbers formed in the top, middle and bottom rows are multiples of 17, 25 and 9 (respectively); and the three digit numbers in the left, middle and right columns are multiples of 11, 16 and 12 (respectively)?

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