An investigation involving adding and subtracting sets of consecutive numbers. Lots to find out, lots to explore.
What is the smallest number with exactly 14 divisors?
Many numbers can be expressed as the sum of two or more consecutive integers. For example, 15=7+8 and 10=1+2+3+4. Can you say which numbers can be expressed in this way?
A book has $89$ pages, but the page numbers are printed incorrectly. Every third page number has been omitted, so that the pages are numbered $1,2,4,5,7,8,...$ and so on. What is the number on the last printed page?
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This problem is taken from the UKMT Mathematical Challenges.View the archive of all weekly problems grouped by curriculum topic