Problem 38. Straight lines

There are 10 points on a plane and no three of them lay on the same straight line. Through each 2 points a straight line passes. How many straight lines are there?

Problem 37. Cookies

A boy ate 100 cookies in five days. Each day he ate 6 more than the day before. How many cookies did he eat on the first day?

Alpha 8 - Unsolved Problems

1. How many diagonals does a convex 12-gon have?

2. Divide a square into rectangles using segments of lines so that no two rectangles together would form a bigger rectangle.

3. Suppose you have a square with side of length 1. Is it possible to place inside it a number of disjoint circles the sum of radii of which is more than 100?

4. Present 12 as a sum of positive integers such that their product is maximal.

5. If you multiply all integers from 1 to 100 (1 and 100 included), you will get a large number ending in a lot of zeros. Exactly how many zeros will be at the end of this number?

6. Paint a plane with nine colors so that any two points at the distance of 1 from each other would be of different colors.

7. Place 7 points on the plane so that among any three of them at least two are at the distance of 1 from each other.

Problem 36. The smallest number

What is the smallest number divisible by each of the numbers 1 to 20?