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Puzzles & Problems (2)
1. Colouring Regions (2)
The diagram shows a regular pentagon with its five diagonals drawn.
The diagonals split the pentagon into eleven regions.
Some of the regions can be shaded to make different patterns.
I can shade any number of regions (from 0 to 11 regions) to make the patterns.
Three different patterns are shown below.
How many different patterns can be made in total?
2. Tangent Sums
Can you find three angles A, B & C such that:
tan(A) + tan(B) + tan(C) = tan(A) tan(B) tan(C)
How many solutions exist and what can you say about them?
3. Powerful Numbers
The number 407 is an unusual number because:
Can you find any other numbers that are equal to the sum of the cubes of their digits?
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