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100

Solve for x: 3(x+2)−x = 0

What is -3?

100

A circle has a radius of 3. What is the area in terms of pi?

What is 9pi?

100

What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ___

What is 32?
100

I’m a number. Double me and add 6, and you get 16. What number am I?

What is 5?

100

How many GWM meetings have we had this year?

What is 14?

200

Solve for x: 2x−5=9

What is 7?

200

What’s the area of a triangle with base 15 and height 8?

What is 60?

200

Two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck, and one duck in the middle. How many ducks are there?

What is 3?

200

What 3 (different) positive numbers give the same answer when multiplied and added together?

What are 1,2 and 3?

200

She calculated flight paths for NASA’s Apollo missions and was featured in Hidden Figures.

Who is Katherine Johnson?

300

If x=4, what is the value of 2x2−3x+1

What is 21?

300

A square has a perimeter of 24. What’s the area?

What is 36?

300

You’re thinking of a number. You double it, then add 6. The result is 20. What number were you thinking of?

What is 7?

300

A grandfather, two fathers, and two sons go fishing. How many people are there?

What is 3?

300

She’s known as the first computer programmer. Who is she?

Who is Ada Lovelace?

400

Factor: x2−5x+6

What is (x-5)(x-6)?

400

A right triangle has sides 5 and 12, what is the length of the hypotenuse?

What is 13?

400

You enter a dark room with only one match. There’s a candle, a fireplace, and a gas lamp. Which do you light first?

What is a match?

400

What adds 5 to 9 and gets 2?

What is a clock?

400

She was a German mathematician who changed abstract algebra forever but wasn’t allowed to teach under her own name.

Who is Emmy Noether?

500

Solve For x: (2x+3)/(x-1) = 4

What is 3.5?

500

Triangle ABC has angles A=63 and B=42, what is the measure of angle C?

What is 75?

500

A train leaves town A at 60 mph. A second train leaves town B 1 hour later going 80 mph on the same track. If the towns are 280 miles apart, how long until the second train catches up?

What is 4 hours?

500

I am a three-digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit. My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?

What is 194?

500

These 3 things connect Ada Lovelace, Emmy Noether, and Katherine Johnson: trailblazing in male-dominated fields, brilliant minds, and __________.

Hint: think our club

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