Mathematical Road (Or plane) Trip
A large bronze statue of him, with a manuscript in hand, was unveiled in 1979, the 100th anniversary of his birth, on the grounds of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC
Who is Albert Einstein
Suppose for angle theta, its Sine is ½ and it’s located in quadrant II. What is Cosine of theta?
What is -sqrt(3)/2
Let a equal the Geometric Mean of 12 and 3 and b equal the Arithmetic Mean of 12 and 3. Find a+b
13.5 (6+7.5)
In April 2001, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ordered all US ones of these to switch from fractions (in sixteenths) to decimal pricing in dollars and cents.
Stock Markets
A pioneer of computer science and artificial intelligence, take a road trip after arriving in London to visit any bank to get a new 50 pound note, unveiled in March 2021 which contains this mathematician’s portrait.
Who is Alan Turing
Suppose Tangent of theta equals 0, Cosine of theta is negative. Find Cosine of theta
What is -1
Find
lim n/(n+1)
n->infinity
1
A tv which costs $800 at Best Buy will actually cost the consumer how much after 7% sales tax is added.
What is $856
The first celebration of this math holiday took place in 1989 at the San Francisco Exploratorium as the creation of physicist Larry Shaw
What is Pi Day
Find the lengths of the sides of right triangle with perimeter 30 containing all integral side lengths.
What are 5, 12, 13.
Find the remainder when x2023-x2-x-1 is divided by x+1
-2
Quarters produced before 1964 are worth much more than face value due to the melt value of this metal, which quarters made between 1796 and 1964 and 90% made of?
What is silver
In August 2023, the annual MAA Mathfest will be held for the first time in the state of Florida in this city, which is also home to the University of South Florida.
What is Tampa (Tampa Bay)
Suppose sin 15 = a, and cos 15 = b. Find sin 30 in terms of a and b.
2ab
For what value of p, the probability of success, is the value of the variance of a binomial distribution, maximized for a fixed value of n (sample size.)
p= ½
Suppose $2000 is invested in a one month Certificate of Deposit with an interest rate of 2.5% compounded monthly. How much money is in the balance of the account at the end of one month.
What is $2050
You can catch a flight to Asia and celebrate this country’s statistics day on June 29th, the birthdate of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (best known for the Mahalanobis Distance.)
What is India
Find the value of sin2(25) + cos2(25)
1
How many possible 4 letter radio call letter strings are possible if the first letter must be a K or a W and the letters can repeat
35152 (2*26*26*26)
One of the oldest and most commonly used indexes in the stock market is this index, now owned by News Corporation, of 30 prominent companies.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average.