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A highly composite number (HCN) is a positive integer with more divisors than any smaller positive integer. Plato considered the HCN 5040 to be an ideal number for dividing things – such as citizens...

Luis plans to purchase some new baseball bats and gloves before spring training begins. Luis wants to buy the same bats and gloves he purchased last spring, but he can’t remember the price of each...

The 3rd Thursday in April (April 18, 2024) is National High Five Day! For National High Five Day, Ronnie’s class decides that everyone in the class should exchange one high five with each other person...

According to the North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA) standards, U.S. phone numbers contain a 3-digit area code, followed by a 3-digit exchange code and end in a 4-­digit subscriber...

A 6-inch tall flower casts a 4-inch shadow at 5:00pm. One month later, when the sun was at the same position in the sky as it was at 5:00pm one month earlier, the shadow cast was 5 1/3 inches long...

May is National Bike Month, so here are a few problems related to bicycles. Brenden is riding an old-time bicycle that has a back wheel with a diameter of 1 foot and a front wheel with a radius of 1.5...

Kyra’s school building this year was overcrowded due to a lot of new registered students. Classroom space was a real issue. In looking ahead to next year, the administration figures that if teachers...

Memorial Day has always been the unofficial start of summer. Here are some problems about some things we love in hot weather! Two local supermarkets sell watermelons grown at McDowell’s farm. But...

This Friday, June 14th, the United States will celebrate Flag Day. If you check out the many websites devoted to Flag Day, you are sure to learn a lot about the history of the holiday and the history...

Each summer Radolpho, Lucia and Mya, along with their families, spend two weeks on vacation at their shared lake house. Mya travels the furthest distance to get to the lake house from her home. Mya’s...