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Who is the man that created the theorem a^2 + b^2 = c^2
What is pythagoras
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The smallest prime number

what is 2

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In the equation y = mx + b, this variable represents the

slope of the line.

What is m

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  • What is the value of the expression 1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + 5 - 6
    +.. +99 - 100?

50

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Built to protect against northern invasions, this massive structure is often referred to as the longest cemetery in the world due to the workers who died building it.

What is the Great Wall of China

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This mathematician have the official name of the coordinate plane named after him, who is he

What is Descartes

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According to the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, this is the prime factorization of 72.

What is 2^3 times 3^2

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This is the result of simplifying the expression 3x (x - 4).

What is 3x^2 - 12x

200
  • A jacket that normally costs $80 is marked down 25%.
    After a week, the sale price is reduced by an additional 20%. What is the final price of the jacket?

$48

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  1. Discovered in 1974 by farmers digging a well, this army of over 8,000 clay warriors was created to protect Qin Shi Huang in the afterlife.

What is the terracotta Warriors

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Known for his work on deciphering German enigma machine for Great Britain during the WW2, who is he?

Who is Alan Turing
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This is the smallest positive integer that is divisible by all integers from 1 to 5.

What is 60?

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Solve this system of equations:

 x= 5y

2x + 3y=-13

(-5,,-1)
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A jar contains more than 150 rocks. The rocks can be divided into equal shares among 4, 5, 6, or 9 children with exactly 1 rock left over each time. What is the least number of rocks that the Jar have

181

300

This famous trade route connected China to the Mediterranean Sea, facilitating the exchange of goods, culture, and technology.

What is the Silk Road 

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This Swiss mathematician, considered the most prolific of all time, developed the concepts of graph theory and topolgy with the Seven Bridges of Königsberg.

Who is Leonard Euler

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According to Fermat's Little Theorem, if pis prime, then a^p= a(mod p). Using this, find the remainder when 2100 is divided by 3.

What is 1

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This is the solution to the inequality -3r < 10- r.

 r>-5
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  • If xy = 8 and xy = 125, what is the value of xy?
    Express your answer as a common fraction.

10/1

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He was the revolutionary leader known as the "Father of Modern China" who helped overthrow the Qing Dynasty.

Who is Sun Zhong shan

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This 17th-century French amateur mathematician famously noted in a margin that he had a "marvelous proof" of his "Last Theorem" that was too large to fit.

Who is Fermat ( Pierre de Fermat

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This specific type of prime number is one less than a power of two (2" - 1).

What is Mersnene prime

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These are the two roots of the quadratic equation x^2 + 6x +9 = 0.

double root of x = -3

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  • A triangle has vertices at (0, O), (x, O), and (x, 5). If the area of this triangle is 30 units and x is a positive integer, what is the value of x?
12
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This intense political and social campaign, launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, aimed to enforce communism by removing capitalist and traditional elements from society.

The cultural revolution