13 results.
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Question in Transition to university
Sort a list of numbers into "prime" or "composite".
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Question in Bill's workspace
Reducing fractions to their lowest form by cancelling common factors in the numerator and denominator. There are 4 questions.
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Question in Content created by Newcastle University
Factorising 5 to 7 digit numbers into a product of prime powers.
Uses the marking algorithms from question 1 of this CBA
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Question in Content created by Newcastle University
Number Theory.
Given $n \in \mathbb{N}$ find $\mu(n),\;\tau(n),\;\sigma(n),\;\phi(n).$
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Question in Content created by Newcastle University
Given $\frac{a}{b} \in \mathbb{Q}$ for suitable choices of $a$ and $b$, find all $n \in \mathbb{N}$ such that $\phi(n)=\frac{a}{b}n$.
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Question in Content created by Newcastle University
Given $m \in \mathbb{N}$, find all $n \in \mathbb{N}$ such that $\phi(n)=m$ and enter the largest and second largest if they exist.
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Question in Content created by Newcastle University
Given $m \in \mathbb{N}$, find values of $n\in \mathbb{N}$ such that $\sigma(n)=m$.
There are at most two such solutions in this question.
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Question in Content created by Newcastle University
Solving a pair of congruences of the form \[\begin{align}x &\equiv b_1\;\textrm{mod} \;n_1\\x &\equiv b_2\;\textrm{mod}\;n_2 \end{align}\] where $n_1,\;n_2$ are coprime.
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Question in Content created by Newcastle University
Solving two simultaneous congruences:
\[\begin{eqnarray*} c_1x\;&\equiv&\;b_1\;&\mod&\;n_1\\ c_2x\;&\equiv&\;b_2\;&\mod&\;n_2\\ \end{eqnarray*} \] where $\operatorname{gcd}(c_1,n_1)=1,\;\operatorname{gcd}(c_2,n_2)=1,\;\operatorname{gcd}(n_1,n_2)=1$
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Question in Content created by Newcastle University
Solving an equation of the form $ax \equiv\;b\;\textrm{mod}\;n$ where $\operatorname{gcd}(a,n)|r$. In this case we can find all solutions. The user is asked for the two greatest.
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Question in Content created by Newcastle University
Solving three simultaneous congruences using the Chinese Remainder Theorem:
\[\begin{eqnarray*} x\;&\equiv&\;b_1\;&\mod&\;n_1\\ x\;&\equiv&\;b_2\;&\mod&\;n_2\\x\;&\equiv&\;b_3\;&\mod&\;n_3 \end{eqnarray*} \] where $\operatorname{gcd}(n_1,n_2,n_3)=1$
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Question in Content created by Newcastle University
Solving three simultaneous congruences using the Chinese Remainder Theorem:
\[\begin{eqnarray*} x\;&\equiv&\;b_1\;&\mod&\;n_1\\ x\;&\equiv&\;b_2\;&\mod&\;n_2\\x\;&\equiv&\;b_3\;&\mod&\;n_3 \end{eqnarray*} \] where $\operatorname{gcd}(n_1,n_2,n_3)=1$
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Question in Transition to university
This question tests the student's ability to identify the factors of some composite numbers and the highest common factors of two numbers.