Can you solve it? Are you in the smartest 1 per cent (of 13-year-olds)?
by Alex Bellos from on (#4HATY)
The test given to the UK's maths prodigies
UPDATE: The solutions are now up here.
Today you are pitting yourselves against the best 13-year-old mathematicians in the UK.
The questions below are taken from last week's Junior Mathematical Olympiad, a competition aimed at children up to Year 8 (in England) who score in roughly the top half per cent of mathematical ability.
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