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At what angle should you throw something to maximise the distance it travels?
2 out of 3
Two cannons are fired at one another and the cannonballs collide... what can you deduce?
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This problem explores the biology behind Rudolph's glowing red nose, and introduces the real life phenomena of bacterial quorum sensing.
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Exponential functions grow pretty quickly...
3 out of 3
Given the mean and standard deviation of a set of marks, what is the greatest number of candidates who could have scored 100%?
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Build series for the sine and cosine functions by adding one term at a time, alternately making the approximation too big then too small but getting ever closer.
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Can you crack these very difficult challenge ciphers? How might you systematise the cracking of unknown ciphers?
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Given a set of points (x,y) with distinct x values, find a polynomial that goes through all of them, then prove some results about the existence and uniqueness of these polynomials.
