Imagine you are suspending a cube from one vertex (corner) and
allowing it to hang freely. Now imagine you are lowering it into
water until it is exactly half submerged. What shape does the
surface of the water make around the cube?
Imagine you have six different colours of paint. You paint a cube
using a different colour for each of the six faces. How many
different cubes can be painted using the same set of six colours?
How many different ways can I lay 10 paving slabs, each 2 foot by 1
foot, to make a path 2 foot wide and 10 foot long from my back door
into my garden, without cutting any of the paving slabs?
A rectangular field measuring 17.5 metres by 10 metres has two posts 7.5 metres apart with a ring on top of each post. The posts are approximately 7 metres from the nearest corners as shown in the diagram. You have two quarrelsome goats and plenty of ropes which you can tie to their collars and you want them to be able to graze the whole field between them. How can you secure them, using the
posts, so they can't fight each other, and how much rope is needed?