Mervin may paint the four walls and ceiling of his rectangular bedroom as he wishes. Each surface is painted in one of three colours, red, white and green, and no two adjacent surfaces may have the same colour. How many different ways can he paint the room?
Here is an ascending list of fractions whose denominators, in simplest form, are less than 6: $\frac15,\square,\frac13,\frac25,\square,\square,\frac23,\frac34,\frac45$. Three fractions have been omitted. What is their sum?
In autumn, Tilly’s meadow changes rapidly with the weather. The number of flowering plants starts at 150 000 and halves each week as plants die off. The number of fungi starts at 20 and triples each week. To the nearest week, how long will it be until the fungi outnumber the flowering plants?
In rectangle $ABCD$, the marked lengths $AE=x$, $EB=y$ and $AD=z$ are positive integers. Triangle $AED$ has area 12 square units and triangle $BCE$ has area 21 square units. How many possible values of $z$ are there?
A non-standard die has the numbers 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 and 21 on its faces. The die is rolled twice and the numbers are added. What is the probability that the sum is also a value on the die?
The quadrilateral shown is cut into two equal areas by the dashed line. Its parallel bases have lengths 4 and 6, and the perpendicular left side is divided into lengths 1 and 1. The right side is divided into upper length $a$ and lower length $b$. What is $a:b$?