ISM Trivia🧿
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100
Who is the head of the department of ISM?
Professor Madya Dr. Zailan Siri
100
How many right triangles have all side length integers and both legs of length a prime number?
0
100
What is the remainder if 10^2018 is divided by 999?
100
100
Jack is three times as old as Jill. In 7 years, he will be twice as old as she. How old is Jack?
21
100
“I suppose the body to be just a statue or a machine made of earth.” Which French thinker made this statement?
Rene Descartes
200
How many academic staff in ISM?
30
200
Amirah runs one mile at 6 miles per hour and then the next mile at 8 miles per hour. What is Amirah average speed in miles per hour for the 2-mile run?
48/7
200
Three positive integers, a, b, c, have product 1386.
Further, a /3 = b + 1 = c − 4. Find a+b+c.
38
200
You take six steps, each time moving either one step forward or one step back, with probability 1 2 of each each time. What is the probability that you end up back where you started?
5/16
200
I am Greek scholar from Alexandria and am known as the first woman to influence the study of mathematics. I wrote treatises on both math and astronomy, but none of my work is known to still exist. Who am I?
Hypatia
300
Name two ISM lecturers that graduated in any overseas university.
(DR TAN TA SHENG, DR ONN SHEA MING)
300
There is only one positive integer n for which the number obtained by removing the last three digits of n exactly equals the cube root of n. What is this integer n?
32768
300
Suppose x and n are positive integers such that x^2 + 847 = 22n. Determine x + n.
63
300
Compared to 20 years ago, the number of boys taking this contest increased by 20%, the number of girls increased by 30%, and the total number of students increased by 22%. What fraction of the students taking the contest this year are girls?
13/61
300
Who reminds you of this sequence 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,...?
daily double🌟
Leonardo of Pisa or Fibonacci or Leonardo of Bonacci
400
He is a senior lecturer. He holds a degree from France University.
(DR ONN SHEA MING)
400
A strip of rubber is initially 80 cm long, and after every minute it is instantaneously and uniformly stretched by 40 cm. An ant moves at a rate of 42 cm per minute, starting at one end. Each time the strip is stretched, the ant is moved to a position on the modified strip proportional to its position on the strip before the stretching took place. How many minutes does it take the ant to cross the strip?
52/21
400
There are two times between 3PM and 4 PM when the hands of an accurate clock are perpendicular. Exactly how many minutes must elapse between these two times?
360/11
400
Ahmad and his younger cousin Matthew both have their birthday on the same day. Remarkably, on their birthday in 2008, Ahmad was the same age as the sum of the digits of the year of his birthday and the same was true of Matthew. How many years older than Matthew is Ahmad?
18
400
An Indian mathematician who discovered this
Srinivasa Ramanujan
500
A senior lecturer as well that graduated with not just a degree but master as well as Phd. She is also now the deputy head of faculty of student affairs. Who is she?
(DR. SITI SUZLIN BINTI SUPADI)
500
Beginning with 1, all the positive integers are written successively, beginning 1234567891011121314…. What digit appears in the 2001th position?
3
500
Every day at noon a ship leaves Le Havre in France for New York and another ship leaves New York for Le Havre. The trip lasts 7 days and 7 nights. How many New York-Le Havre ships will the ship leaving Le Havre today meet during its journey to New York (including the ships it might meet at the harbors)? ) All schedules are on Greenwich Mean Time.
15
500
Ben says “Exactly one of Dan and Cam is telling the truth.”
Dan says “Exactly one of Ben and Cam is telling the truth.”
Cam says “Neither Ben nor Dan is telling the truth.”
Which of the three friends is lying?
Only Cam is lying
500
A leading mathematician in the 17th century and had one of his theorems proved in the year of 1995.
Pierre de Fermat