A Couple of Puzzles

Exercise 3.11
1 Tim exercises for 30 min every afternoon.
How many hours of exercise does Tim get in January?

2 The string is fixed to the two points.

What shape is made by the pencil
if the string is kept taut?

3 How many circles of radius 2 cm can

be cut from a circle of radius 6 cm?

4 The 6 x 4 rectangle is cut into two pieces

as shown and rearranged to make one 4
right-angled triangle.
What is the length of the hypotenuse? 6

A Game
Loopy is a game for two players.
1 Place 8 to 12 dots on a piece of paper.
2 Take turns to make a loop.
3 The loser is the person who can't
make a loop.
A loop starts and finishes at the same dot.
A loop may go through a maximum of four dots.
A loop can't cross another loop.

A Sweet Trick
1 Show your audience a $50 note.
2 Tell them they can have the $50 if
they can fold it in half eight times.

1 fold = 2 layers
2 folds = 4 layers Try it. Eight folds What is the smallest
3 fold = 8 layers is impossible. number of folds that
4 folds = 16 layers would be impossible?
5 fold = 32 layers
6 folds = 64 layers
7 fold = 128 layers
8 folds = 256 layers

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