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2011 Oct UKMT Junior Mentoring Paper
2011 Oct UKMT Junior Mentoring Paper
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To make short pastry one uses flour to fat (butter, margarine, etc.) in the ratio 2 : 1. To make flaky
pastry requires a ratio 4 : 3. I have 3 kg of flour and 2 kg of fat and wish to use all the ingredients
making some of each type of pastry. How much flaky pastry do I make?
A polygon of 100 sides has all possible diagonals drawn from a chosen vertex to the others. How
many triangles are formed? What is the sum of the interior angles of the 100 sided polygon?
Write down the units digits of all the square numbers from 1 to at least 20.
How can you tell that 573 is not a square number?
You tell your friend that there is the same chance of obtaining an even number of heads when tossing
four coins as of a head showing when tossing just one coin.
She doesnt believe you; how do you convince her?
p and q are two prime numbers chosen so that p + q and p - q are also prime.
Prove that p - q is a prime number.
Work out the day of the week for 14 Sep 1752, the first day of the new calendar in England when an
Act of Parliament brought the calendar into alignment with the Gregorian calendar used in most of
Western Europe by that time.
[Leap years occur every 4 years with the exception that every 100th year is not a leap year but every 400th year is a leap
year. Look up Gregorian calendar on Wikipedia.]
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2/4/9 It all depends on remainders after division. The methods are similar, qu 4 counting in 10s and qu 9 counting in 7s.
For more notes go to http://www.ukmt.org.uk/ : follow links Mentoring>Junior>Modular Arithmetic at NRICH
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You may know a rule for this but use this question to prove it for yourself.
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The exterior angle of a triangle is that between a side and its neighbour extended externally.
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Work out all the ways you can arrange 4 coins in a row, each showing a head or a tail. Remember 0 is an even number.
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Always make a drawing which is fairly accurate when doing geometry. NB: Is all the data needed to solve the problem?
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You can work out the values of p and q but you should justify your answers.
10 There are a number of possibilities for a and b but these get reduced as you try to fit successively c, d and e.