IM 2 Mid Year Jeopardy

Statistics

100

The probability of flipping a coin twice and getting heads both time is....

What is 1/4 or 25%?

200

If 60% of students like basketball what percent hates basketball?

40%

300

The Redsox won 70% of their home games and 55% of their away games last season. What is the probability that the Redsox with both a home game and an away game? 

38.5% or 0.385

400

If 35% of students have a job when they are in high school and 80%of students get their license in high school. What is the probability of having a job but NOT having a drivers license?

7% or .07

500

Out of 100 people, 45 of them claim to eat vegetables five times a week. Also, 60 people claim to eat pizza at least once a week. Using the addition rule, what is the probability that someone eats pizza once a week or vegetables 5 times a week? 

78% or .78

Triangles

100

The 5 triangle congruence theorems are....

What are ASA, SSS, SAS, AAS, HL?

200

The 3 triangle similarity theorems are...

What is AA, SSS, and SAS?

300

The congruence theorem to solve the following problem is..

What is SSS?

400

The congruence theorem to solve the following problem is..

What is SAS?

500

The value of x is....

What is 5.4?

Factoring

100

Factor the following polynomial: x²+2x+1

(x+1)(x+1)

or 

(x+1)²

200

Factor the following polynomial

3x²+5x+2

(3x+2)(x+1)

300

The factors of 3x²+10x-8 are 

What is (3x-2)(x+4)?

400

The factors of 8x²-10x-3 are...

What is (2x-3)(4x+1)?

500

The factors of 7x²-17x+6 are...

What is (7x-3)(x-2)?

Riddles/Brain Teasers

100

What goes up and down, but never moves?

What is the stairs?

200

A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?

The river was frozen. 

300

A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?

An apple a day keeps the doctor away!

400

I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?

What is pencil lead?

500

Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?

What is the number 8?