A Sequence of Unfortunate Events
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100

This is the name for the famous sequence that can be written as "an=an-1+an-2"

What is the Fibonacci Sequence?

(0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ...)

100

ln(n) is equal to this where "n" is the smallest prime number (round to the nearest hundredth). 

What is 0.69?

100

This is the likelihood of rolling an even number on a 6-sided die three times in a row?

What is "1/8" or "0.125"?

(1/2)*(1/2)*(1/2)=1/8

100

These are the first 5 digits of pi

3.1415

200

Complete the following sequence

0, 1, 1, 4, 9, 25, 64, 169, __

What is 441?

The sequence is the Fibonacci sequence with each term squared

02, 12, 12, 22, 32, 52, 82, 132, __212___

212 = 441


200

This is the first 3 digit prime?

101

200

This is the likelihood of drawing a red face card from a regular 52-card deck (must be simplest form).

Face cards include Jacks, Queens, and Kings

What is "3/26" or "0.115"?

200

What are the first three digits of e (rounded)?

What is "2.72"?

300

This is the next number in the sequence

1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, ___

What is 13112221?

This is known as the "Look-and-Say" Sequence where you quite literally say the numbers you see and write it out. For example, the first term is "one 1" which becomes "11," then that is "two 1" which is "21" and so on.

300

This is the sum of all even prime numbers less than 100.

2

2 is the only even prime number

300

Given that a child rolls a normal 6-sided dice and a tetrahedron (4-sided dice), this is the likelihood of rolling the same number on each die within a single roll.

What is "1/6" or "16.67%"?

300

Order the following from least to greatest:

▪ i16

▪ i54

▪ e*(i48)

What is "i54 < i16 < e*(i48)"?

400

If the sum of 15 consequtive integers is 2025, then this is the sum of the integers with only odd digits.

What is 675?

2025 = x+(x+1)+(x+2)+...+(x+13)+(x+14)
         = 15x+(1+2+...+13+14)
         = 15x+(14[14+1]/2) = 15(x+7)

x+7 = 2025/15 = 135

128 ≤ x ≤ 142

The only integers in this range with odd digits are 131, 133, 135, 137, and 139 which have a sum of 675

400

There are this many prime numbers less than or equal to 67.

What is 19?

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67

400

Given the information that a couple has two kids. This is the likelihood that the first child is a boy and the second child was born on a Tuesday.

What is "1/14" or "7.14%"?

400

This is the error for the following equation:

(ax+by)2 = (ax)2+2(a+b)xy+(by)2

What is the second term on the righthand side of the equation should be "2(ab)xy", bit "2(a+b)xy"?

500

For the sequence "17, 16, 20, 11, 27, 2, 38, ..." the next term has this value.

What is -11?

an = an-1+(n-1)2(-1)n+1  {a1=17} 

a8 = a7+72(-1)9 = 38-49 = -11

500

There are this many distinct primes in the prime factorization of 2026

(Prime factorization is breaking a number down into all of its primes. For example, 210 would be 2*3*5*7 and have 4 distinct primes)

What is 2?

2 and 1013

500

Given the following information, there are this many girls who earned an A the exam:

▪ 116 students take an exam
▪ 1/4 of girls and 1/7 of boys earn an A
▪ 23 students earn an A

What is 15?

G+B=116; G/4+B/7=23

3B/7=24, therefore B=56 and G=60

Since 1/4 of girls passed the exam, 15 girls passed

500

Identify which one(s) of the following equations is/are incorrect and what the correct answer(s) are:

▪ ln(e4) = 4

▪ cos(x+ℼ) = -cos(x)

▪ sec2(x)+tan2(x) = sin2(x)+cos2(x)

Incorrect: sec2(x)+tan2(x) = sin2(x)+cos2(x)

Should Be: sec2(x)-tan2(x) = sin2(x)+cos2(x)