***************************************************************** ****** Congratulations to all who entered ******* ***************************************************************** * Winners/Solvers of puzzle 517 * ***************************************************************** BRITNEY ELLITHORP,DAVID PRAMIK, Adeline Cervantes, Kayla Hawbecker, Kelsey B. and Catherine G., Adilene Cervantes, Kayla Hawbecker, Austin Roberts, Nick FitzGerald, Beau, Matt P., Jason Valdez Highlands Elementary - Santa Clarita - United States of America Sisi Jiang Broadview P.S. - Ottawa Canada John M. Brian C. Andy C. Michelle S. - Mrs. O'Connell's 5th Grade Cottage Lane School - Blauvelt, NY U.S.A Lily SP2-1-88 kate fish Branksome Hall Jay and Jake Gladys Speers P.S - Oakville, Ontario Canada This is our answer for this weeks question 1,1,4,8,9,27,16,64,25,125,36,216 To get this answer you have to do 1x1=1, 2x4=8, 3x9=27,4x16=64 etc. We got the 123456 because it was a pattern. Spenser, Jimmy Tat Gladys Speers public school - oakville Ont. Derek L. & Melissa S. St. Joseph school - Tilbury, Ontario, Canada Siddharth Suresh Dawson student - Montreal Daniel Chan Winfields J.H.S - TOronto, Ontario, Canada Emily Burke Australia im doing this out side of school ramani jv tau mu school - munirka new delhi. anju india karangaba shiau Jasdeep & T.J. - class5/6 PercyMerryP.S. - Milton,Ontario,Canada Danny Walker Georgetown District High School - Ontario, Canada Gaylen Branksome Hall Brendan Harris Gavin Ayres Altrincham Loreto - England Gr. 6/7 Sacred Heart School - Sarnia Ontario Jessica Bowne St. Gabriel - Connersville, In. U.S.A. Saladi Rahul, Ramiz Nathani C.M.Academy - Ankleshwar India Duc BTX high schol - VN Pansy Yeo: Nanyang Girls' High School - Singapore Tyler John Simons Marghetis Mother Teresa High School - Nepean, Ontario Canada trunc(x) = y where y is the integral part of x Tn = [trunc((n + 1)/2)]^[((n + 1) mod 2) + 2] T4 = [trunc((4 + 1)/2)]^[((4 + 1) mod 2) + 2] T4 = [2]^[1 + 2] = 8 Therefore T11 = [trunc((11 + 1)/2)]^[((11 + 1) mod 2) + 2] = [6]^[0 + 2] = 36 T12 = [trunc((12 + 1)/2)]^[((12 + 1) mod 2) + 2] = [6]^[1 + 2] = 216 John Ford Berkeley mathias Grade 4/5 Morrisburg Public School - Morrisburg, Ontario Canada Whitney Matthews Brookstone High - Columbus GA USA Sean Esson Holy Trinity High School Ontario, Canada Lim Chiao Yuen Science College - Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei Darussalam Ramon Nguyen Post, Houston, TX TacoBell Ana Ivic York University - Keele Campus North York Canada steven Jenn Garbett Pineland PS - Burlington Mrs. Kempff's grade 5's Pineland Public school - Burlington Ontario xetrsaq Bob Leighfield Tillsonburg - On Canada Shawn Shelast - Grade - Seven St. Martin's - Vegreville, Alberta, Canada Tom Jackson Anlaby School - Hull England Theo Mokgatlhe St Dominic's College - Welkom South Africa Manish Mohan gprc - grande prairie, alberta, canada Sarah Osmeyer acheng Michael Angelopoulos Royal West Academy,Montreal,Quebec,Canada Ling Xiang Ning, Allan Raffles Institution - Singapore Tomasz Biczak - grade 4 Waverley Drive Public School - Guelph, Ontario, Canada The numbers in the pattern are the pairs of squares and cubes of 1, 2, 3, ,4 and 5. The next number in the pattern is 6. The square of 6 is 36 and its cube is 216. So 36 and 216 go in the blanks. sadeghi nejad yazd - yazd university Clara Alvarez Antonio Maura (school), Palma de Mallorca, Spain Eric Louchez University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON Canada Sunny China John Brockman Lisa Schechner Weber Middle School - Port Washington, NY John Beard Provo High School - Provo, Utah, U.S.A. T. Hoang Colin Clarke Cranbrook - Birmingham, USA, MI. Francis Miller Bryan Friedman liana quach and aaron stone techumseh p.s, - burlington, canada Anthony Sander Highlands Elemtary - Santa Clarita, Usa Jordan Cappadocia, Brian Serneels, Andy Smith, Greg Mckenzie. Kilbride Public School - Kilbride, Ontario, Canada. ***************************************************************** ****** Congratulations to all who entered ******* *****************************************************************