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The perimeter of a square with an area of 25
20
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If (23)2 = 4p, then 3p =
What is 27?
100
One of the assumptions of the Hardy-Weinberg Principle.
What is...
1)Large Population size
2)Diploid Organism
3)Organism only reproduces sexually
4)No overlapping generations
5)Mating is random
6)Allele frequencies are equal in both genders
7)Absence of migration, mutation or selection
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The person who discovered the formula that states the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares on the other two sides.
Who is Pythagoras?
100
Are you a 45 degree angle, because you're ______.
What is perfect?
200
Angles A and B are complementary and the measure of angle A is twice the measure of angle B. Find the measures of angles A and B.
A = 2B
2B + B = 90
3B = 90
B = 90 / 3 = 30°
A = 2B = 60°
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The equation of the graph obtained by shifting the graph of y=x^2 horizontally to the left 4 units and vertically down 3 units.
What is...
y=(x+4)2-3
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Nash Equilibrium meaning in the context of Game Theory.
What is..
Optimal outcome - no player has an incentive to deviate from a chosen strategy
200
This scientist and mathematician who discovered three laws of nature that roughly describes the motion of all matter across the universe.
Who was (Isaac) Newton?
200
My love for you is like an __________ curve. It's unbounded.
What is exponential?
300
At a certain time of day, a 25-foot telephone pole casts a 10-foot shadow. At that same time, the tree height for a 25-foot shadow.
62.5 feet.
Proportional reasoning with similar triangles.
300
A culture of 5000 bacteria triples every 15 minutes. The size of the bacteria population after 2 hours have elapsed. (Calculator needed.)
What is...
32,805,000
5000(3)8
300
The result of a Caesar cipher on "gjnn" with a key of 5.
What is "loss"?
300
The mathematician known for the coordinate plane.
Who was Rene Descartes?
300
You must be a ____ because every time I see you my heart oscillates with joy.
What is a sine/cosine wave?
400
Find the area of the given shape.
.
Sides of the right triangle (red) are given by
15 - 10 = 5 cm and 20 - 8 = 12 cm
Area of given shape = 20 × 15 - (1/2) × 12 × 5 = 270 cm2
400
√(32 + 10√(7)) = a + √(b) where a and b are both integers and b has no perfect square factors greater than 1, find a + b.
What is 12?
400
The smallest number of steps required to complete a Tower of Hanoi puzzle with an initial state of 3 disks is...
What is 7?
400
The number sequence that often appears in nature and was discovered in 1202 AD.
What is The Fibonacci Sequence?
400
If you were sin squared I'd be ___________. And together we would be one!
What is cosine squared?
500
Number of sides of a polygon in which the sum of the degree measures of the interior angles is 4 times the sum of the degree measures of the exterior angles.
10.
Sum of the degree measures of exterior angles is 360. S = (n-2)180 = 4 x 360, where n=number of sides. Solving for (n-2) = 8 or n=10.
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For the system of three equations: x-z=7, x+y=3, z-y=6, find x.
What is 8?
500
Explain the Three Utilties Problem & its solution.
What is...
Connect the 3 houses to water, gas, and electricity, without letting the wires cross. There is no solution.
500
The first woman mathematician we know about.
Who was Hypatia?
500
Are you the square root of _____, because you're too good to be real!
What is -100?