Recent Math
What are the two types of sequences we learned this week?
Geometric/Arithmetic
Sharks have been around for over 250 million years, what is this number in scientific notation?
2.5*108
The most expensive pie sold was a meat pie sold in Lancashire in 2005. If the pie was $10,596, how many McDonald's apple pies ($1.89) could you buy for that amount to the nearest pie?
5,606
How many digits are there in pi?
Infinite!
What occasion corresponds with the longest day of the year?
BONUS: Name them
4
post secondary planning
student loans
saving for the future
planning for the future
Sharks make up 8 different orders which are further split into 500 species of sharks, the largest order CARCHARHINIFORMES, is made up of roughly 270 species of sharks. What percentage of shark species are NOT CARCHARHINIFORMES?
46%
The largest pie ever made was a cherry pie made in 1990. The massive pie weighed 17.11 tonnes. How many pounds did the pie weigh?
34,220 lbs
a) 163 billion
b) 359 billion
c) 62 trillion
d) 104 trillion
c) 62 trillion!
Who won the Grammy for album of the year this year?
Beyoncé Knowles Carter - Cowboy Carter
If you study for 30 minutes on the first day of spring break (Monday) and increase your studying by 20 minutes each day, how long will you study for on Friday in hours and minutes?
1 hours and 50 minutes
The longest shark ever recorded was a 62 foot long whale shark, the shortest measured was a 6.3 inch long dwarf lantern shark. How much longer is is the whale shark than the dwarf? How many times longer is the whale shark?
737.7 inches longer (61 feet and 5.7 inches)
118.095 times longer
The largest pumpkin pie was a 3700 lb pie made in 2010, if it had a diameter of 20 ft, what was the circumference of the pie?
20π ft or 62.83 ft
Recite as many digits of pi as you can! (team that says the most gets points)
3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489...
What is Mr. Glover's dog's name?
Ellie!
What is the formula for an explicit geometric sequence?
an=an-1*rn-1
an=a0*rn
The Great White can live up to 70 years, if they can grow up to 20,000 teeth in their lifetime, about how many teeth is a great white expected to go through per year?
~285 teeth per year
What are the top three pie flavors by sales?
What is the fraction commonly used to represent pi?
22/7
When did Eldorado open?
1973
Eldorado has a new policy where students will get their grade reduced for time spent on their phones, each minute spent on their phones is a reduction of 1% of their overall grade. Write an explicit formula to find a students grade for any given time (assuming you start at 100 for the grade)
an=100 - n
or
an= 99 - (n-1)
A hammerhead shark swims at a top speed of 25 mph, if it is racing a mako shark that has a top speed of 46 mph, how much of a head start would the hammerhead shark need to beat the shark in a race that is 10 miles long?
4.575 miles
What type of pies do people usually get splatted into their face when a pie is thrown at them?
Whipped cream or Shaving cream!
Which famous mathematician/physicist's birthday is today?
A lion