Math Problems
If the area of a right triangle is 24 and one leg is 6, what’s the length of the other leg?
8
What’s the name of a polygon with 12 sides?
Dodecagon
I am the invisible force that causes objects to accelerate toward Earth’s center — what am I?
Gravity
What part of a plant cell captures light energy for photosynthesis?
Chloroplast
What element has 6 protons?
Carbon
Simplify:
(3x^2-3)(2x+4)
6x^3+12x^2-6x-12
The symbol ∑ stands for what mathematical operation?
Summation
I’m a colorless gas that helps fire burn but can’t burn myself — what am I?
Oxygen
In the food chain, what term describes animals that eat both plants and other animals?
Omnivores
What’s the acceleration due to gravity on Earth (in m/s²)?
≈ 9.8 m/s²
A line passes through (2, 5) and (8, 17). Find its equation in slope-intercept form.
y = 2x + 1
What’s the smallest positive integer, other than 1, that is both a perfect square and a perfect cube?
64
What year did humans land on the moon?
1969
What type of symbiotic relationship benefits one organism and harms the other?
Parasitism
When a chemical reaction absorbs heat, it’s called what type of reaction?
Endothermic
What is the median?
10, 39, 71, 42, 39, 76, 38, 25
39
What are the first 10 digits of pi?
3.141592653
What fundamental constant connects energy and mass in Einstein’s famous equation?
Speed of light (c)
Name the rarest blood type out of the standard 8 blood types.
AB Negative
The name of the element with symbol Fe
Iron
A geometric sequence has first term 3 and fourth term 81. What’s the common ratio?
3
Simplify. Exact answers only.
root()(216)
6root()(6)
I can be bent, slowed, or split, yet I have no mass. What am I?
Light
What do we call the study of birds?
ornithology
Which planet in our solar system has the most moons?
Saturn. It has 146 moons.