Various Problem Solving Practice Exercise 2 1. (from TIMSS 2011) Pat has red tiles and black tiles. Pat uses the tiles to make square shapes. The 3 x3 shape has The 4x4 shape has ¢ black 1 black tile and 8 red tiles. tiles and 12 red tiles. Pat made a shape with 64 tiles. How many were black? How many were red? 2. (from TIMSS 2011) . oh & FY Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 A sequence of four figures is shown above. Ifthe figures were continued, how many circles would there be in Figure 10? 3. In order to win the grand prize, Benny has to crack this secret code. Given the clues, help Ben to crack the code: 83__ 65 (a) The third digit is greater than the second digi (b) The difference between the third and fourth digits is 3. (©) When the sum of all the numbers is divided by 5, it has @ remainder of 3. (d) When the sum of all the numbers is divided by 6, it has a remainder of 3. 4. Ten people can sit around a rectangular table for a meal. When two such tables are joined side by side, 18 people can sit around the two tables. When three such tables are joined side by side, 26 people can sit around the three tables. How many such rectangular tables are needed for 90 people to sit together?5, Ina group, some children like swimming while others like skiing or both sports. Twenty- five children like swimming and 21 children like skiing. Of these, 13 like both swimming and skiing. How many children are there in the group? e ® e/ \® ® @ e /X ° @ ® e @ ‘Three people sit around a triangular table. Four people people can sit around 10 such tables? around two such tables. How many 7. Ata tuition centre, some teachers teach English while others teach mathematics or both subjects. Fifty-two teachers teach English and 38 teachers teach mathematics. Of these, 22 teachers teach both subjects. How many teachers are there in the tuition centre? 8. Ms. X, Ms. Y and Ms. Z—an American woman, an Englishwoman, and a Frenchwoman, bbut not necessarily in that order, were seated around a circular table, playing a game of Hearts. Each passed three cards to the person on her right. Ms. Y passed three hearts to the American, Ms. X passed the queen of spades and two diamonds to the person who passed her cards to the Frenchwoman. Who was the American? The Englishwoman? The Frenchwoman? 9. Two players, A and B, take tums in the following game, There is a pile of six matchsticks Ata tum, a player must take one or two sticks from the remaining pile. The player who takes the last stick wins. Player A makes the first move and each player makes the best possible move. Who wins the game? 10. A college student sent a posteard to her parents with the message SEND + MORE MONEY Ifeach letter represents a digit (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9), with different letters representing different digits and the same letter representing the same digit each time it occurs, how much money is being requested? (SEND for the school tuition and MORE for other expenses.)