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100

Who did we get the zero from?

Brahmagupta, Indian mathematician and astronomer.

100

What is the standard form of a linear equation?

Ax+By=C

100

What is the shortest distance between two points?

What is A straight line; the Euclidean distance?

100

Probability of rolling a sum of seven with two dice.

What is 1/6?

100

What does the following equation represent?

E=mc2

Equivalence of mass and energy

200

Who is known as "The Prince of Mathematics"?

Carl Friedrich Gauss

200

What is the point-slope form of a linear equation?

y-y1=m(x-x1)

200

What is the sum of the interior angles of a hexagon?

What is 720?

200

What is the probability of getting heads when flipping a fair coin?

What is 1/2

200

What is the nickname for this equation?

ei(pi) +1 =0

The most beautiful equation in math.

(Euler's Identity)

300

According to the Greeks, what is a prefect number?

A positive integer which is amicable with itself, i.e. it equals the sum of its factors.

300

What is the vertex form of a parabola?

y=a(x-h)^2+k

300

How many sides does a tetracontagon have?

What is 40?

300

If you draw one card from a standard deck of 52 playing cards, what is the probability of drawing a heart?

What is 1/4 or .25?

300

The equation

What is Euler's Identity?

400

Which mathematician published over 850 papers ranging from all topics of math, and is credited with functional notation and developing trigonometric functions to represent sine, cosine, and tangent?

Leonhard Euler

400

Distance Formula

400

If two triangles are similar and the ratio of their corresponding sides is 2:3, what is the ratio of their areas?

What is 4/9?

400

If a person is chosen at random, what is the probability that their birthday is in December (assuming each month is equally likely)?

What is 1/12 or .0833

400

This equation is for what

(x−h)^2+(y−k)^2=r^2 

The circle equation

500

Student of Pythagoras that is rumored to have been thrown off a boat and drowned after revealing that the square root of two is irrational?

Hippasus

500

Solve the system of equations
2x+3y = 12

x−y=1

What is x=3 and y=2

500

A triangle has sides of lengths 7 cm, 24 cm, and 25 cm. Determine whether this triangle is a right triangle. If it is, identify the lengths of the legs and the hypotenuse.

What is the triangle is a right triangle, with legs of lengths 7 cm and 24 cm, and the hypotenuse of length 25 cm?

500

Probability of you answering this question correctly.

What is 0?

500

This equation is used for

f(x)=ax^2+bx+c


What is quadratic growth rate?