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Given the 7-element set A=a,b,c,d,e,f,g, find a collection T of 3-element subsets of A such that each pair of elements from A occurs exactly in one of the subsets of T.

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The sixty-four squares of a chess board are filled with positive integers one on each in such a way that each integer is the average of the integers on the neighbouring squares. (Two squares are neighbours if they share a common edge or vertex. Thus a square can have 8,5 or 3 neighbours depending on its position).
Show that all the sixty-four entries are in fact equal.
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Let T be the set of all triples a, b, c of integers such that 1a<b<c6. For each triple a, b, c in T, take the product abc. Add all these products corresponding to all triples in T. Prove that the sum is divisible by 7.
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Solve the following alphameric given that different letters stand for different digits 0,1,2,3,,9:

 FORTY  TEN  TEN  SIXTY 

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In a class of 25 students, there are 17 cyclists, 13 swimmers and 8 weight lifters and no one is all the three. In a certain mathematics examination 6 students got grades D or E. If the cyclists, swimmers and weight lifters all got grade B or C, determine the number of students who got grade A. Also find the number of cyclists who are swimmers.
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Five men A, B, C, D, E are wearing caps of black or white colour without each knowing the colour of his cap. It is known that a man wearing a black cap always speaks the truth while a man wearing a white cap always lies. If they make the following statements, find the colour of the cap worn by each of them:

A:I see three black and one white cap.

B:I see four white caps.

C:I see one black and three white caps.

D:I see four black caps.

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Letf be a bijective (one-one and onto) function from the set A=1,2,3,,n to itself. Show that there is a positive integer M>1 such that fMi=fi for each iA.

[fM denotes the composite functionfff repeated M times.]

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Show that there exists a convex hexagon in the plane such that:

a all its interior angles are equal

b its sides are 1,2,3,4,5,6 in some order.

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There are ten objects with total weight 20, each of the weights being a positive integer. Given that none of the weights exceed 10, prove that the ten objects can be divided into two groups that balance each other when placed on the two pans of a balance.