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13 December

Today's number is given in this crossnumber. No number in the completed grid starts with 0.

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12 December

What is the smallest value of \(n\) such that
$$\frac{500!\times499!\times498!\times\dots\times1!}{n!}$$
is a square number?

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11 December

Put the digits 1 to 9 (using each digit exactly once) in the boxes so that the sums are correct. The sums should be read left to right and top to bottom ignoring the usual order of operations. For example, 4+3×2 is 14, not 10. Today's number is the product of the numbers in the red boxes.
++= 15
+ + ÷
+= 10
+ ×
÷×= 3
=
16
=
1
=
30

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Tags: numbers, grids

10 December

How many integers are there between 100 and 1000 whose digits add up to an even number?

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9 December

The diagram below shows a rectangle. Two of its sides have been coloured blue. A red line has been drawn from two of its vertices to the midpoint of a side.
The total length of the blue lines is 50cm. The total length of the red lines is also 50cm. What is the area of the rectangle (in cm2)?

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8 December

Noel writes the numbers 1 to 17 in a row. Underneath, he writes the same list without the first and last numbers, then continues this until he writes a row containing just one number:
What is the sum of all the numbers that Noel has written?

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Tags: numbers

7 December

There are 8 sets (including the empty set) that contain numbers from 1 to 4 that don't include any consecutive integers:
\(\{\}\), \(\{1\}\), \(\{2\}\), \(\{3\}\), \(\{4\}\), \(\{1,3\}\), \(\{1,4\}\), \(\{2, 4\}\)
How many sets (including the empty set) are there that contain numbers from 1 to 14 that don't include any consecutive integers?

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Tags: number, sets

6 December

There are 5 ways to tile a 4×2 rectangle with 2×1 pieces:
How many ways are there to tile a 12×2 rectangle with 2×1 pieces?

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