Friday, March 22, 2013

NRICH Weekly problem (12)


Weekly Problem 12 - 2013

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:1
The square of a positive number is twice as big as the cube of that number. What is the number?



Last week's solution:

Weekly Problem 11 - 2013

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:1
The reduction of 15% off sale prices is equal to a reduction of 7.5% off the original prices. Therefore the toal reduction on the original prices is (50 + 7.5)% = 57.5%.

6 comments:

  1. I think the answer is 2:

    2 squared = 4
    2 cubed = 8

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  2. How is it 0.5?
    I think it is 2...

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  3. So does this question means X2=2X3?
    (X=Positive Number)(the number after X is a power of X).

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  4. Yeah, I think it is 0.5 too; because 0.5 sq. is 0.25; and 0.5 cubed is 0.125.
    So I think the number is 0.5.

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  5. So do I..I read the question wrong before...

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