Problem Solving
The number 5 above twice of seven.
What is 19?
The Pythagorean Theorem
What is c2=a2+b2?
The number of students in the room.
What is {answer}?
The solution to 3x+4=2(x+2).
What is x=0?
The function that gives factorials at integer values, but is defined for the reals.
What is the Gamma function?
If it takes 15 minutes to get from the Technical campus to the Plano campus and all classes are 1hr 15minutes long, what is the most classes one can have alternate between the two campuses between the hours of 9a.m. and 4:15p.m.? No consecutive classes are on the same campus and you cannot arrive late.
What is 5?
The fastest general method of solving simultaneous linear equations.
What is Gaussian Elimination?
The number of keys a TI 84 Plus CE calculator has.
What is 50?
The product of x, y, and z if
x+y+z=4
x+y=1
x=3
What is -18?
The cube roots of -8.
What are -2, 1+31/2i, and 1-31/2i?
The area of a triangle with sides 3, 2, and 3.
What is 2 * 21/2 units2?
The length of an arc in a circle with radius r that is defined by an angle x radians.
What is r*x?
1*1+1+1/1-1/(1+1)*1+1-1*(1-1)-1-1/(1+1)+1*(-1)-1.
What is 1?
The solution to f(x+2)=2x+2 and g(x)=-x+1. (A solution requires that f(k)=g(k)).
What is x=1?
The real zero of x0+x1+x2+x3+x4+...+x21.
What is -1?
Jim has three kids, Jill, Jane, and James. Jim is three times the oldest, but twice the sum of the total of the children's ages. If the two youngest are twins, how old are they if Jim is 36 years old?
What is 3 years old?
The sum of the first n positive integers.
What is n(n+1)/2?
The maximum value of -(x-1)(x-3).
What is 1?
The sum of solutions to (20x-16)1/2=2x.
What is 4?
The names of your team members.
What is {answer}?
The number of different ways a manager can assign a workload so that everyone has at least one job and all the tasks are completed if there are 8 indistinguishable tasks and 3 workers.
What is 21?
The equivalent function of sec-1(x) in terms of sin-1 and x. (In the first quadrant)
What is sin-1((1-x2)-1/2)?
The surface area of a 3x1x5 rectangular prism.
What is 46 units2?
If loga(b)=64, then loga*a(b3) is the answer.
What is 96?
For a triangle of sides 3,4, and 5, the difference in area between the circumscribed circle and the inscribed circle.
What is 21/4 * pi?