Games
A Clean Uniform
It's Not a Horsculus
Prooooooooobability
Extreme Challenges in Geometry and Proofs
100
Spell games.
What is G-A-M-E-S?
100
The graph of a uniform pdf always looks like this. (Hint: It rhymes with Lorizontal Hine.)
What is horizontal line?
100
Derivatives and integrals are the two central processes of this mathematical subject. (Hint: It rhymes with Malc You Bus.)
What is Calculus?
100
This was the country where the lady tasting tea experiment allegedly took place. Hint: It's on the British Isle, but it's not Scotland, Ireland, or Wales.
What is England?
100
Wow! Congratulations on challenging yourself; that will be an excellent trait to carry into your college years and beyond! Score 300 points just for taking this risk.
What is nice job, once again.
200
True or false. In crossing the river, it is easier to get rid of a 6-8 than to get rid of an 8-8.
What is true?
200
In the quaint town of Calculonia, salaries are paid according to a uniform distribution between $20,000 and $120,000. This is the mean salary.
What is $70,000?
200
This is the derivative of -2x^2.
What is -4x?
200
There are 4 red marbles and 2 blue marbles in a bag. This is the chance that the first two marbles you pick out are both blue.
What is 1/15?
200
These are the two truths out of (a) Dr. S can play violin standing on his head, (b) Dr. S can juggle machetes, and (c) Dr. S was chased by cannibals once.
What are (b) and (c)?
300
You flip a coin 10 times. T or F; you're more likely to get 6 of one side and 4 of the other than of getting 5 heads and 5 tails.
What is true?
300
Caysee shows up to Calculus class between 9:50 and 10:10 every morning that we have class. The distribution of her arrival times is more likely to be normal than uniform. This is a reasonable explanation why.
Answers vary.
300
Give a function whose derivative is -2x^2.
What is anything in the form of -(2/3)x^3 + C, where C is a constant?
300
Ben and Destiny are playing Risk. In a final showdown, Ben rolls two dice while Destiny only gets to roll one. This is the probability that Destiny's sum is greater than Ben's.
What is P = .09?
300
There are three countries in the world whose names begin with the letter "H." Score 100 points for each one you can name. (Note: Holland is not a country; it is officially called the Netherlands).
What are Honduras, Haiti, and Hungary?
400
Daniel's father offers him a prize if he wins (at least) 2 tennis sets in a row out of a 3-set series against himself and a champion. Daniel has the choice to play F-C-F or C-F-C. This is the series Daniel should choose and why.
What is C-F-C?
400
UB salaries are uniformly distributed between $3 and $9 per hour. This is the percent of the staff who get $5 or less.
What is 33%?
400
Name a functions such that f(x) = f'(x).
What is f(x) = 0?
400
This is the answer to P(sum not 8 | sum not 7) if you roll two dice.
What is 5/6?
400
These were the four countries in the semifinals of the 2014 World Cup. (100 pts each)
Who were Germany, Argentina, Brazil, and Netherlands?
500
Chuck-a-luck is a popular gambling game. A player bets on a number 1 to 6. Three dice are rolled, and the number of dice showing the player's number are counted. If 3, player wins 3 times the bet, 2 = 2 times, 1 = 1 time, and 0 = loses the bet. This is the amount the player should expect to lose, on average.
What is 8%?
500
In New York City, bus #4270 arrives uniformly between 6:00am and 7:30am. This is the average time that Alex will have to wait for the bus if he arrives exactly at 6:30am. (Note: If the bus came before 6:30am, Alex will have to wait until it comes the next day!)
What is 8 hr 20 min?
500
3INT3 (x^2+e^3xln8)^sqrt(2) dx
What is 0?
500
There are three two-sided cards in a hat: 1. Both sides red 2. One side red, one side black 3. Both sides black You pull a card out randomly and see that one side is red. This is the probability that you drew card #1.
What is 2/3?
500
By rearranging the first letters of the first names of these presidents (Van Buren, Arthur, Hayes, and Johnson), you can spell this word -- something you might do tomorrow night.
What is CRAM?
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