Fermi Questions
Amount of People at this Beam site this summer
What is 10^2
The probability of getting an even number on a 4 sided dice
What is 1/2
The team that LeBron was on when he won his first Championship
What is the Miami Heat
What is the maximum number of times you can subtract five from 25?
once
Solve the equation for x and y:
3x +21 = 42
2y - x = 1
x=7, y= 4
Amount of legs that would be in a group of 100 dogs and 50 cats
What is 10^2
The probability of getting a prime number on an 10 sided dice
What is 4/10?
The most popular manga of all time
What is One Piece?
When I was twelve my brother was half my age. I’m 40 now, so how old is he?
34
Using only addition, how can you get to 1000 by using only 8’s?
888+88+8+8+8
Grains of rice are in a 10 kilogram bag of rice
What is 10^5
The probability of getting two 1s when rolling a 6 sided dice 3 times
What is 15/216
The name of the two specialized high schools in Brooklyn
What are Brooklyn Tech and Brooklyn Latin?
One grandmother, two mothers, and two daughters went on a trip to the zoo together and bought one ticket each. How many tickets did they buy?
3 tickets
The amount of conversations that would happen if everyone in this room had a conversation with each other
varies
The speed of light in meters per second
What is 10^8
The concept that as we do more experiments, our expected value tends towards the theoretical average.
What is the law of large numbers
The country that has the most Nobel Prizes per capita that regulary collects Nobel Prizes
A farmer explains the animals he keeps on his farm to a neighbor. He says “I only keep sheep, goats, and horses. At the minute, I have all sheep except three, all goats bar four, and all horses bar five.”. How many does he have of each animal?
one horse, two goats, and three sheep.
2+2 = 44
3+3 = 96
4+4 = 168
5+5 = 2510
Then what is 6+6?
3612
The amount of regular M&Ms that would fit inside the sun. Assume the M&Ms do not melt or stick together.
What is 10^27
Twenty passengers are waiting to get on a plane with twenty seats.Everyone has an assigned seat, but the first passenger has lost their ticket and randomly chooses a seat to sit in. The next passenger gets on. If their seat is open, they sit down in their seat. If not, they randomly choose one of the open seats to sit in. Every passenger afterwards does the same thing. Suppose you are the last passenger to get on. What is the probability that you sit down in your assigned seat?
1/2
The number 1 bilboard song in 2010
What is Tik Tok by Kesha?
There is a clothing store where the owner has come up with his own method of pricing his items. A tie costs $15, a shirt costs $25, a skirt costs $25, and trousers costs $40. Using this method, how much would a coat cost?
$20
I have 20 candies. If I share them equally with my friends, there are 2 left over. If one more person joins us, there are 6 candies left. How many friends am I with
6 people altogether