Fun with PEMDAS
This is 1.1111... written as a mixed number
What is 1 and (1/9) ?
A decade is the number of decade beads. It's also the same number of years.
What is 10 ?
It's the "e" in PEMDAS.
What is an EXPONENT ?
If it were real, this number would be the weight of 5 pounds of "Kryptonite", in ounces.
(1 pound = 16 ounces)
What is 80 ?
It's alive! This remarkable little creature makes bread, cakes and muffins rise.
What is yeast ?
Numbers like "pi" and "the square root of 2" and "the golden ratio" are part of this special set: It means the set of numbers that are not expressed as ratios.
What are irrational numbers ?
It's the number of beads on a standard rosary.
What is 59 ?
Why, it's the value of
y = 3x + 1, when x = 25
What is 76 ?
If a water bomb contains 2/5 of a liter of water, then this is the number of liters of water in 10 water bombs.
What is 4 ?
The recommended daily allowance for Vitamin C for adults is 90 milligrams. For children, it is half this amount. This is the amount of RDA for 5 children, in mg.
What is 225 ?
It's the value of
15 - 3 * 4 + 11 ?
What is 14 ?
The six large beads on a Rosary are traditionally used for which prayer ?
What is the "Our Father" prayer ?
This number is the solution to
2(7w+16) = 13w + 40
What is 8 ?
The Urakami Cathedral in Japan had a 50 ton catholic bell tower that was destroyed by the Atomic Bomb in World War 2. This is the weight in pounds. (A ton is 2000 pounds)
What is 100,000 ?
This popular holiday drink contains eggs, cream, milk, nutmeg and salt. Often stirred with a cinnamon stick.
What is Egg Nog ?
This number equals the following:
7(3.1-0.1) + 4(12+3) + 3*3
What is 90 ?
The hail mary prayer is often chanted a lot of consecutive times: 5 decades, or this number.
What is 50 ?
How many solutions are there to the equation:
2(3x+6) = 3(2x+4) ?
What are "infinitely many" ?
A plane at MACH speed is flying 768 miles per hour. This number is the top speed of an F-15 aircraft, which is 2.7 times MACH speed. (Rounded to the nearest ten MPH)
What is 2070 ?
If a 3 pound fruit cake is divided into 12 servings, it's the number of ounces per serving.
What is 4 ?
A dozen (12), a gross (144) and a score (20), plus three times the square root of four, all divided by seven, plus 5 times 11, equals this number. Not a bit more.
What is 81 ?
The feast of "Our Lady of the Rosary"
is traditionally held on
this day of the calendar year.
Thanks to Pope Pius V.
What is October 7th ?
Bobby skates at 8mph.
Sam bicycles at 10 mph.
After 7 hours, how much farther has Sam travelled?
What is 14 miles ?
In August 1945, about 8,500 Christians (over 2/3 of the Christians living there) died from the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, Japan. This is the number of months since that event: It is now December 2024.
What is 953 ?
It's the volume of a gingerbread house that is 36 inches long, 8 inches wide and 18 inches in height, in cubic feet.
What is 3 ?