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Connecting Math: Just for Fun #16
1. Two teams of woodcutters have to cut some logs with the size, in twenty equal pieces. The first team cuts a log in 100 seconds and the second team needs five seconds for each cut. Which of the two teams wins the competition?

The second team wins because cutting a log in twenty pieces requires only 19 cuts.
19x 5=95 seconds

Alexandru Grosu
5th grade
"Duiliu Zamfirescu" School, Focsani, Romania
2. What number from 1 to 10 is equal with the leight and the breadth of a geometrical figure having an aria equal with the perimeter?

(4 square)

3. Is there in the 20th century a year written in figures on a sheet of paper to be overturned paper?

1961

Catalina Iordan
5th grade
"Duiliu Zamfirescu" School, Focsani, Romania
Teacher: Petru Dumitru