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In the traditional fairground game of Can Can a can will fall if it is hit by the ball or if it is sitting on a can that has fallen. Only the fallen cans score points. The point score is marked on the can. Miriam throws a ball at the cans. She only hits one.

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To water the garden Eric needs 50 litres of water. The tap is 80 metres away from the garden. He is using a 5 litre watering can. Every 20 metres he loses a half litre of water because the watering can has a leak. What is the smallest number of times he will need to fill up his can in order to finish watering the garden. Explain your answer. Question 6 The staircase To make this staircase Pierre wants to use yellow blue _ and green cubes. He has already drawn a plan view (seen from above) and a side view. Ian view
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Azur needs to tile 3 rooms in a grand palace. He is going to use tiles of the same shape for the whole floor. He can cut the tiles when they are at the wall. Azur wants to use a different shape in each room. He is using dotted paper to help work out his ideas. He decides that each shape will: -cover exactly 6 dots; -have 6 corners.

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Fuzz Lightning is playing with his laptop. He types in a whole number that is not zero.

After a lot of calculations on the laptop Fuzz notices that the results are repeating. They are always one-digit numbers. "To infinity and beyond!" he shouts. He puts in some other numbers. The laptop runs its programme. It finishes up by repeating the same one-digit numbers.
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