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100

The formula for the volume of a cone.

What is V= 1/3πr2h

100

The radius of a cylinder whose volume is 282.6 cubic feet and whose height is 10 feet. (Use 3.14 for pi)

What is 3 ft?

100

This is the radius of a sphere whose volume is 113.04 ft cubed.

What is 3 feet?

100

What is 0.48 written as a fraction in simplest terms?

What is 12/25?

100

The value of 4 cubed

What is 64?

200

You get a snow cone at the fair. The paper cone you get has an opening of 2 inches in diameter and is 5 inches tall. It is really hot outside, and your snow cone melts! What is the approximate volume of the melted sugar water in your paper cone? (answer in tenths)

What is 5.2 inches cubed?

200

The volume of a large aluminium soda can whose radius is 4 cm and has a height of 12 cm. (round to the nearest whole number) (use 3.14 for pi)

What is 603 centimeters cubed?

200

An Italian chef creates a single, perfectly spherical giant meatball with a staggering volume of 904.32 cubic inches. Before he can claim his Guinness World Record, the judges demand to know the radius to ensure it will fit inside the oven. Using 3.14 for pi, find the radius.

What is 6 inches?

200

Solve: 15 less than the product of 8 and 9.

What is 57?

200

List the Order of Operations (not just the letters!)

What is Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication/Division, and Addition/Subtraction PEMDAS

300

The volume of a cone whose height is 7.8mm and whose diameter is 6.4mm. (answer in nearest mm)

What is 84mm cubed?

300

A large decorative candle has a radius of 6 cm and a height of 15 cm. How much wax is needed to make the candle? (use 3.14 for pi) (round to the nearest whole number)

What is 1896 cm cubed?

300

Selena Gomez is out for a hike when she stumbles upon an asteroid half-embedded in the ground. The asteroid is almost perfectly spherical and is 38 feet in diameter. What is the volume of Selena Gomez's asteroid? (answer in nearest tenths)

What is 28716.3 cubic feet?

300

Solve for n: 3(2n-5)=10n-3

What is n=-3?

300

You are trying to escape a terrifying, fast-moving lawnmower by running diagonally across a rectangular field. You know the field is exactly 8 yards wide and 15 yards long. To calculate the exact length of your diagonal escape route before you get chopped into confetti, which ancient Greek mathematical formula do you desperately need to use?

What is the Pythagorean theorem? 

or What is a2 + b2 = c?

400

You visit two ice cream shops, and both have delicious waffle cones. They both charge the same amount for the cones, but they are different sizes. Shop A's cones are 3 inches in diameter and 8 inches tall. Shop B's cones are 2.5 inches in diameter and 9 inches tall. Which shop gives you more ice cream?

What is Shop A?

400

To prove you love your hamster more than anyone else loves theirs, you buy a giant cylindrical plastic tunnel system. The tunnel has a radius of 10 cm and a height of 50 cm. What is the volume of the hamster highway? (use 3.14 for pi)

What is 15,700 cm cubed?

400

Lebron James owns a basketball retail shop. The basketball that is in high demand from his customers has a volume of 434 cubic inches. Lebron needs to know what the diameter of this ball is so Lebron can put this basketball on display in his front window. (answer in nearest whole number)

What is 9 inches?

400

The slope and y-intercept of the line y=-2/3x + 6.

What is -2/3 and 6?

400

How many students are in your classroom period?

Period 1/2: What is 17?

Period 3/4: What is 26?

Period 5/6: What is 19?

500

This is the height of a cone whose volume is 307.72 centimeters and has a radius of 7 centimeters.

What is 6 centimeters?

500

A wizard is trying to brew a potion to help all 8th-grade students get an A on their exam in a perfectly cylindrical cauldron. The cauldron has a volume of 301.44 cubic feet and a radius of 4 ft. He fills it with potion to the absolute brim. What is the height of the cauldron?

What is a height of 6ft?

500

You put a quarter into a sketchy grocery store gumball machine and out rolls a single, jaw-breaking, massive spherical gumball with a radius of 2 cm. How much sugary dental distress (volume) are you about to bite into? (use 3.14 for pi) (round to the nearest tenth)

What is 33.5 cm cubed?

500

A gym membership fee for 6 months, where the initial fee is $65, and the monthly fee is $27. 

What is $227?

500

Mrs. Churchill's favorite animal.

What is a rhino?

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