1. Left to right:
Maria, Samuel, Lucy, Gayle, Mike, Gina
2. Only three of the shapes can be
created with a single slice of a square:
Isosceles Triangle, Trapezoid, and Pentagon.
The others are impossible.
3.
4. (a) Smallest positive integer
creations:
(i) 1 = (-2)7
+ (3) 5
(ii) 2 = (-2)6 + (1)14
(iii) 4 = (1)4 + (0)20
(iv) 1 = (-5)25 + (6)21
4. (b) the result is always the gcd of the
two numbers
5. The next five numbers that cannot
be generated by any other positive integer are 3, 5, 7, 9, and 20.