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100

What is the hypotenuse of a triangle whose legs are 9 and 40?

41

100

If the points (2,3) and (5,y) lie on a line whose slope is -7/6, what does y equal?

-0.5

100

Liliane has 50% more soda than Jacqueline, and Alice has 25% more soda than Jacqueline. How much more soda (in percent) does Liliane have than Alice?

20%

100

 What is the day after Thanksgiving called?

Black Friday

100

Convert 15 miles per hour to meters per second.

6.7 m/s

200

5(x-3) = -35/(x+5)

{-4, 2}

200

If the diameter of a circle A is twice as large as the diameter of circle B, what is the ratio of the area of the larger circle to the area of the smaller circle.

4:1

200

How many positive perfect squares less than 2023 are divisible by 5?

8

200

What was the name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded from England?

The Mayflower

200

At what temperature does water boil and freeze? Answer in degrees Fahrenheit.

32°F , 212°F

300

One hundred eighty guests attended a thanksgiving dinner. Three servers were serving turkeys. The first server helped three times as many people as the second server and the third server helped twice as many people as the first server. How many guests did each server help?

54, 18, 108

300

In circle O, there is a central angle <AOB that measures 75 degrees. If a chord is drawn from A to B, what is the measure of <OAB?


52.5


300

Sam drove 96 miles in 90 minutes. His average speed during the first 30 minutes was 60mph (miles per hour) and his average speed during the second 30 minutes was 65 mph. What was his average speed, in mph, during the last 30 minutes?

67 mph
300

 How long did the first Thanksgiving feast last?

3 days

300

 If a Turkey and a feather were released from the same height, which object would reach the ground first. Ignoring air resistance.

They’ll land at the same time

400

Tickets for Drake’s thanksgiving dinner were $2.50 for general admission and $0.50 for kids. If there were six times as many general admission tickets sold as there were kids’ tickets sold, and total receipts were $7750, how many of each type of tickets were sold?

3000, 500

400

Circles A and B are externally tangent at point C. If AB = 12 and the circumference of circle A is 3 times the circumference of circle B, what is the length of CB (or the radius of circle B?)


3


400

A triangle (not right triangle) has side lengths of 12, 14, and 15. What is the area of the triangle? Round to the nearest whole number.

79

400

What is the name of the popular side dish that contains green beans?

Green Bean Casserole

400

An object is thrown from the top of a building. The object’s height in feet above ground after t seconds is given by the function h(t) = 144 - 16t^2 for 0 <= t <= 3. Describe the concavity of the graph.

Function concave down

500

x + y + z = 12

x + 2y - z = 6

2x - y + z = 7

x = 3 

y = 4

z = 5

500

 In triangle ABC, AB = BC = CA = S. In terms of S, what is the height of the triangle?

s√3/2

500

A five-digit palindrome is a positive integer with respective digits abcba, where a is not zero. Let S be the sum of all five-digit palindromes. What is the sum of the digits of S?

18

500

What year was the first Thanksgiving celebrated?

1621

500

A Turkey is thrown with an initial velocity of 12m/s at an angle of 50° to the horizontal. How long will Turkey stay in the air?

1.88 seconds

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