Right Triangles & Trig
In a right triangle, this trig ratio equals the length of the opposite side divided by the hypotenuse.
What is sine?
This conic section is the set of all points equidistant from a single fixed point called the center.
What is a circle?
This is the term for a line segment from the center of a circle to any point on the circle.
What is a radius?
This is the sum of the interior angles of any quadrilateral, in degrees.
What is 360 degrees?
Nintendo was founded in this Japanese city in 1889, originally to produce handmade hanafuda playing cards.
What is Kyoto?
This is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs of length 9 and 12.
What is 15?
This U-shaped conic is the set of all points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and a fixed line (the directrix).
What is a parabola?
The exact circumference of a circle with radius 7 is this.
What is 14π?
A quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides goes by this name.
What is a trapezoid?
This 1985 console, known in Japan as the Famicom, helped revive the home video game market in North America.
What is the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)?
In a 30-60-90 triangle, if the shorter leg is 5, this is the exact length of the longer leg.
What is 5√3?
This is the center and radius of the circle given by (x - 3)² + (y + 2)² = 49.
What is center (3, -2) and radius 7?
An angle whose vertex is on the circle and whose sides are chords is called this type of angle.
What is an inscribed angle?
This is the sum of the interior angles of a regular hexagon, in degrees.
What is 720 degrees?
This Nintendo designer created Donkey Kong, Mario, and The Legend of Zelda.
Who is Shigeru Miyamoto?
In a right triangle, the side opposite a 40-degree angle is 8. To the nearest tenth, this is the length of the hypotenuse.
What is about 12.4? (8 ÷ sin 40°)
For the ellipse x²/25 + y²/9 = 1, this is the length of the major axis.
What is 10? (a = 5, major axis = 2a)
An inscribed angle that intercepts an arc of 80 degrees has this measure.
What is 40 degrees?
Each interior angle of a regular pentagon measures this many degrees.
What is 108 degrees?
Mario first appeared in the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong, where he was originally called by this name.
What is Jumpman?
A ramp rises 6 feet over a horizontal distance of 10 feet. To the nearest degree, this is the angle the ramp makes with the ground.
What is about 31 degrees? (arctan 6/10)
For the hyperbola x²/16 - y²/9 = 1, these are the equations of its two asymptotes.
What is y = ±(3/4)x?
This is the area of a sector with a central angle of 90 degrees in a circle of radius 6.
What is 9π?
This is the number of sides of a regular polygon whose interior angles each measure 150 degrees.
What is 12 (a dodecagon)?
This commercially unsuccessful 1995 console used red monochrome 3D graphics on a tabletop headset and was discontinued within a year.
What is the Virtual Boy?