After spending $\frac13$ of his money and losing $\frac13$ of its remainder, Alex now has 120 dollars. How much money, in dollars, did Alex originally have?
Alice travels from home to school with an average speed of 40 km/h. When she returns home on the same road, she travels with an average speed of 60 km/h. What is her average speed, in km/h, for the entire trip?
A dog is tied to a 10 m inextensible rope in one corner of a rectangular house, as shown in the diagram below. If the length and the width of the house are 6 m and 4 m, respectively, what is the area, in m² , of the region where the dog can move? (Take $\pi=3.14$ )
A heptagon has five of its sides equal to 6 cm, 7 cm, 13 cm, 15 cm and 19 cm, respectively. It also has three interior right angles, one interior angle of $270^\circ$ and two interior acute angles, each of $30^\circ$ , as shown in the diagram below. What is the perimeter, in cm, of this heptagon?
Find the minimum number of terms in the expression $4+8+12+\cdots$ , where the difference between any two consecutive terms is a fixed value, such that their sum exceeds 2022.
In each turn, Alice and Bob alternately picks and crosses out one number from the set: 5, 6, 8, 14, 21, 25, 35, 37 and 63, where Alice goes first. After four turns, the sum of numbers removed by Bob is four times the sum of numbers removed by Alice. What is the remaining number?
There are 8 red, 6 white, 4 green and 2 black balls in a box. What is the least number of balls one needs to draw at random from the box in order to be sure that balls of at least three different colours are drawn?
The price of an object was increased by p% and then decreased by q% so that the object has the final price equal to the initial one. What is the value of $\frac{pq}{p-q}$ ?
A mutant octopus can have six, seven, eight or nine legs. Those with seven or nine legs always lie, while those with six or eight legs always tell the truth. The green octopus says: “I have eight legs. The blue octopus has six legs.” The blue octopus says: “I have eight legs. The green octopus has seven legs.” The red octopus says: “I have nine legs. The blue octopus has eight legs.” The yellow octopus says: “I have eight legs. None of the others has eight legs.” Which mutant octopus actually has eight legs?
The outer circle has radius 3 cm. The white region is outlined by half circles whose radii are 1 cm and 2 cm and whose centres lie on the same diameter of the outer circle, as shown in the diagram below. What is the ratio between the areas of shaded region to the white region enclosed by the outer circle?
Using the positive integers from 1, 2, 3, …, 2022, we write each integer one after the other to form one very large number 123456789101112…2022. What is the remainder of this number when divided by 9?
Charles has a farm on a $3\times3$ plot. The farmhouse is in the central lot, and pigs are kept in the eight other lots, with at least one pig in each lot. The total number of pigs in the three lots on any of the four sides of the farm is 9. An example is shown in the diagram below, where the total number of pigs is 28.
Which of the five numbers below CANNOT be the total number of pigs?
The staircase patterns shown below require 4, 10 and 18 matchsticks to construct them. How many matchsticks are needed to build a staircase of height 100?
In a game, two players take turns calling out any positive integer from 1 to 12. The total of all numbers called out so far is computed. The player who brings the total to 100 or over is the winner. If you go first, you can have a sure win strategy by calling out which number?