GEOMETRY
What is the perimeter of a square that has an area of 25?
20
If x^-2 = 64, what is the value of x^(1/3) + x^0?
3/2
If 1/3 of a number is 4 less than 1/2 of the number, the number is
24. Let x represent the unknown number. Since 1/3 of x is 4 less than 1/2 of x, x/3 = x/2 - 4. So, 2x = 3x - 24, giving x = 24.
What is the reference angle for 115 degrees?
65 degrees
In how many different ways can five students be seated in three chairs?
60. 5x4x3=60
What shape or shapes make up the faces of a square pyramid?
Triangle and square
Let the function f be defined by f(x) = 3x-1 and let the function g be defined by g(x) = x^2. If m is a positive number such that f(7) = g(m) + g(2), what is the value of m?
4
Susan weighs p pounds. If Susan gains 17 pounds, she will weigh as much as Carol, who weighs 8 pounds less than Judy. If Judy weighs x pounds, then Susan's weight, p, in terms of x is
x-25
Convert 60 degrees to radians
pi/3
The cost of admission to an event is $5.00 plus one half of its price. How much does the event cost?
$10.00 Because $5 + 0.5($10) = $10.
At a certain time of day, a 25-foot telephone pole casts a 10-foot shadow. At that same time, how high would a tree have to be in order to cast a 25-food shadow?
62.5 feet. Proportional reasoning with similar triangles.
A culture of 5000 bacteria triples every 15 minutes. What is the size of the bacteria population after 2 hours have elapsed? (Calculator needed.)
32,805,000
A boat moored in Richardson Bay (Sausalito) has a ladder that hangs down from the deck of the boat and touches the flat sea surface. The rungs are 1 foot apart. At low tide, ten rungs of the ladder are exposed. At high tide, the water level rises 6 feet. How many of the rungs will remain exposed?
5 rungs. This number of rungs will be exposed. As the tide comes in, the boat will rise up.
A 15 foot ladder leans against a wall and its base is 9 feet away from the wall. How high up on the wall will the ladder reach?
12 feet
Three fair coins are tossed at the same time. What is the probability that all three coins will come up heads OR all will come up tails?
1/4. 1/8 (all heads) + 1/8 (all tails) = 1/4.
Where two faces of a three-dimensional figure meet.
The edge
What is the equation of the graph obtained by shifting the graph of y=x^2 horizontally to the left 4 units and vertically down 3 units?
y = (x+4)^2 - 3
Jars A, B, and C each contain 8 marbles. What is the minimum number of marbles that must be transferred among the jars so that the ratio of the number of marbles in jar A to the number in jar B to the number in jar C is 1:2:3?
4. Since jars A, B, and C each contain 8 marbles, there are 24 marbles in the three jars. Let x, 2x, and 3x represent the new numbers of marbles in jars A, B, and C, respectively. Hence, x + 2x + 3x = 24 or 6x = 24, so x=4.
sin (120 degrees)
1/2
Five students, all of different heights, are randomly arranged in a line. What is the probability that the tallest student will be first in line and the shortest student will be last in line?
1/20. 1x3x2x1x1=6, 6 ways in which students can be arranged under given conditions. Under no conditions, the ways are 5x4x3x2x1=120. 6/120=1/20.
A quadrilateral that has only one set of parallel lines.
Trapezoid
Working alone, Bill takes three times the amount of time to paint a fence that Mike takes. If Bill and Mike work together, they can paint the fence in 2 hours. If Mike works at the same rate as when he worked with Bill, how long would it take Mike working alone to paint the same fence?
2 hours and 40 minutes. If x represents the number of hours it takes Mike working alone to paint the fence, then 3x is the number of hours it takes Bill working alone to paint the fence. So 2(1/x) + 2(1/3x) = 1 gives x=8/3 hours.
Fruit for a dessert costs $1.20 a pound. If 5 pounds of fruit are needed to make a dessert that serves 18 people, what is the cost of the fruit needed to make enough of the same dessert to serve 24 people?
$8.00. If 5 pounds of fruit serve 18 people, then 5/18 pound serves one person, so 24 x 5/18 = 20/3 pounds. Since the fruit costs $1.20 a pound, the cost of the fruit needed to serve 24 people is 20/3 x $1.20 = $8.00.
A right triangle has one angle that measures 65 degrees. The hypotenuse is 15. What are the lengths of the other two sides?
13.6 and 6.3
x, y, 22, 14, 10... In this sequence, each term after the first term x is obtained by halving the term that comes before it and then adding 3 to that number. What is the value of x-y?
32. x=70, y=38. 70-38=32.