Water
All life on Earth is based on the universal solvent that is composed of the following elements, respectively at a ratio of 1:2.
Oxygen & Hydrogen
This neat mathematical operation allows us to multiply all the numbers from 1 to n
What is factorial?
Adding this to cookies makes them nice and crumbly...if you like them that way
Shortening/Crisco
3*4*2=24
This household chemical produces a scent that power lifters just can't get enough of...because it helps them wake up!
Ammonia/ammonium
The specific heat of water is specifically this value, in units of calories per gram per degree Celsius
1
This famous problem showed that a contestant switching doors was preferable to a contestant sticking with their original door.
What is the Monty Hall problem?
This is the molecule that makes cell membranes more fluid at colder temperatures & less fluid at warmer temperatures--it regulates their fluidity!
Cholesterol
What is the probability that your next two rolls of a die are the same?
1/6
What is France?
Adding salt will make water harder to boil and harder to freeze, as if water wasn't already hard to boil off due to these two factors
1. High specific heat capacity
2. Hydrogen bonds
This counterintuitive phenomenon explains how trends within groups can be the opposite of overall trends.
What is Simpson's Paradox?
Adding this will make your cookies spill flat on your plate instead of standing up nice and thick and being chewy, as it's expected to make them!
Melted butter
How many ways can you select 2 senators in a group of 4 students?
Why did the student wear glasses to math class?
Because of DI-VISION!
This is the reason why a liquid mercury droplet appears more round than a water droplet.
Mercury has MORE cohesion and LESS adhesion that water does
A helpful rule in probability that analyzes the probability of something NOT happening.
What is the Rule of Complement?
This is why your body considers trans fats impostors.
They're unsaturated but look [and act] like saturated fats
How many ways can Alex, Luka, Kay, Ronan and Ava be seated at the movie theater if Alex and Luka are sitting at the two ends?
2*3!= 2*3*2*1=12
Soap picks up grease particles and gets washed away with the water due to this portion of the soap molecule.
Polar "head"
I keep putting pressure on my ice cube and all it does is melt!! It makes this line get a negative slope on water's phase diagram
The melting point line
A person diagnosed with a disease that they do not in fact have is an example of this kind of test result.
What is a false positive?
Oh no! You accidentally used baking soda instead of baking powder in your cake!! It won't rise as well due to a decreased production of this gas.
Carbon dioxide
I flip a coin 5 times. What is the probability I obtain at least one tails?
1-P(no tails)=1-P(all heads)=1-(1/2)5=1-1/32=31/32
They wrote letters to each other in the 17th century and pioneered probability theory.
Who are Pierre De Fermat and Blaise Pascal?