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Algebra
100

The slope of the function f(x)=x2

What is zero?

100
The definition "A line that intersects a circle in two distinct points" describes 

What is Secant?

100

The number of males is five more than three times the number of females. If the total number students 73, then how many of each gender are in the classroom?

How many is 17 females and 56 males
100

The century that Calculus was discovered

When was the 17th century?

100

The kind of algebraic equation of y=2x+3

What is linear?

200

The integration method used to integrate (3x2+2x+1)/(x3+x2+x+1)

What is u-substitution?

200

The Ancient Egyptian usage of a famous symbol which would have been described by an example such as "A square of side 8 has the area of a circle of diameter 9"

What is pi?
200

Jamie and Pat volunteered to paint the hall in the E wing. If it would take Jamie 10 hours to paint the hall alone, and take Pat 5 hours to paint the hall alone, how long will it take them to paint the hall if they work together?

How long is 3 and 1/3 hours?

200

The Ancient Greek philosophy school that was bound by secrecy 

What is The Pythagorean School?

200

The slope of the line 5x+7y=-3

What is -5/7?

300

Integrate 6x5+16x3+12x+1 from -5 to 5

What is 10?

300

The small sub-theorem needed to be proven towards the completion of a larger theorem 

What is a lemma?

300

The sum of three numbers is -48. The first number is twelve more than the second number and the third number is 20 less than twice the second number. What are these numbers?

What are 2, -10 and -40? 

300

This Swiss mathematician has over 800 publications in graph theory, topology, number theory, complex analysis and calculus, and much of the mathematical notation, including f(x), pi, e, and I have become now standard

Who is Euler?

300
The real roots of 2x2+11x+5

What is x=-1/2 and -5?

400

The sum from n=1 to infinity of 1/n(n+1)

What is 1?

400

The origin of the word "Algebra" is derived from

What is the Arabic word Al-Jabr?

400

John and Julie represented West High in a math contest. John outscored Julie by 16 points; as a team, they scored 80 points. David and Dana represented East High in the same contest. Dana outscored David by 10 points; as a team, they scored 60 points. How many points did each person score?

Julie scored 32, John scored 48, David scored 25, and Dana scored 35?
400

This theory went unsolved for 350 years, and was found on the inside of a margin in Diophantus' Arithmetica 

What is Fermat's Last Theorem?

400

All complex solutions to x4-1=0

What is 1, -1, i, -i?

500

Integrate e* sin(x)

1/2 * e* sin(x)-1/2 * ex * cos(x) + C  

500

The pairs of numbers, each of which is the sum of the others algorithmic divisors 

What is Amicable Numbers?

500

Beth and Sam are 500 miles apart. If Beth travels at 60mph and leaves her house at 1pm, what time will she arrive at Sam's house?

What is 9:20pm?

500

This mathematician translated many Greek mathematical works from such authors as Euclid, Theodosius, and Archimedes. Without him, many of these ancient books would have been lost  

Who is Abu’l-Hasan Thabit ibn Qurra?

500

Given a=b+2and b=3c, find the average of a,b, and c

What is 3c?

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