Pythagorean Theorem
This is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs having lengths of 6 and 8 inches.
What is 10 in.?
This is how much somebody has to pay for a $48 dollar pair of shoes (on sale) with a 6.25% sales tax.
What is $51?
This is a probability of landing on a 1,3, 4 or 5 on a spinner with 10 numbers (remember to simplify).
What is 2/5?
The answer to -15 - 5.
What is -20?
The Population of Worcester, at over 205,000, is slightly higher than this nearby capital city, with a population around 190,000.
What is Providence?
This is the hypotenuse for a right triangle with leg lengths of 5 ft and 12 ft.
What is 13 ft.?
A $56 dollar item is on sale for 30% off. This is how much the item costs after the sale (without tax).
What is $39.20?
On a spinner with 20 numbers, this is the probability of landing on an odd number or a multiple of 3.
What is 13/20?
The answer to 5 - 3 + -1 + -2*-15.
What is 31?
This was the first name given to Worcester when it was first settled by a tribe before the area was called Worcester.
What is Quinsigamond?
An isosceles right triangle has a hypotenuse of 18 in. This is the length of both the legs (round to nearest hundredth).
What is 12.73 in.?
This is how much a $25 dollar item costs that is on sale for 25% off but also has a 6.25% sales tax.
What is $19.92?
This is the probability of getting two red marbles in a row with replacement.The bag has 5 red, 6 blue and 4 green marbles.
What is 1/9?
The answer to -5 - (-8)/2 + 1.
What is 0?
This is the steepest street in Worcester, right off main street, with an average of an 18 degree decline (or incline depending on which way one is walking).
What is George Street?
Steve is turning half of his backyard into a chicken pen. His backyard is a 10 meter by 16 meter rectangle. He wants to put a chicken wire fence that stretches diagonally from one corner to the opposite corner. This is how many meters of fencing Steve needs (round to the nearest hundredth).
What is 18.87 m?
This is the simple interest on a $20,000 car loan with a 5% rate paid over 5 years.
What is $5,000?
If there are 11 blueberries, 23 raspberries and 6 blackberries, this is the probability of picking a blackberry followed by a raspberry at random without replacement.
What is 23/260?
The answer to 2* sqrt (33 - (-2) + 7).
What is 12?
This is the old meaning for the name of Worcester from the Saxon Wegeraceaster, a Germanic tribe.
What is war-castle?
This is the length of one side of a right triangle with a hypotenuse measure of 15 cm and one of the legs with measure of 11 cm. (Round to the nearest hundredth)
What is 10.20 cm.?
This is the percent increase of payment of a college that charged $22,000 in 2017 and $23,500 in 2018 (round to the nearest hundredth).
What is 6.82%
This is the probability of getting both blanks as a person's first two tiles in a game of scrabble (with 100 total tiles).
What is 1/4950?
(-132 * 111 - 58.32 + 33.25 / -15.1*-50)0.
What is 1?
This two year span was the winter with the highest amount of snowfall in Worcester history (since they started recording) with 114 inches of snow (there are two correct answers).
'What is 1992-1993?' OR 'What is 2004-2005?'