Math Team
Let a + b + c + d = 29, a + c =13, and a + b + d =19. What is the value of a?
3
How many 3 digit positive integers less than 150 have the units digit greater than its tens digit?
A girl is sitting in a house at night that has no lights on at all. There is no lamp, no candle, nothing. Yet she is reading. How?
The woman is blind, and she is reading Braille.
What is the freezing and boiling point of water in°C?
freezing - 0°C
boiling - 100°C
He went on a quest to find the Golden Fleece with the Argonauts.
Jason
A pound is 16 ounces. 9 pennies weigh one ounce. If you have two pounds of pennies, how much money (in dollars and cents) do you have?
$2.88
2 times
1:21
1:44
How is Europe like a frying pan?
Because it has Greece at the bottom.
What is a a mistake or change in an organism's DNA called?
mutation
What creature did Theseus defeat?
Minotaur
Let a and b be digits of a three digit number "6ab" that is greater than 600. If 6ab is divisible by 4, how many possibilities are there for the two digit number ab?
24
2x + 3y = 2
y=-3
x=11/2
I have keys but no doors. I have space but no rooms, I allow you to enter but you are never able to leave. What am I?
keyboard
Sac within the cytoplasm that is full of fluid; plants have one large; stores food, water, etc.
vacuole
His wings melted when he flew too close to the sun.
Icarus
Rock Falls and the following towns are located along highway 30. The town of Columbus is west of Rock Falls. Ames is east of Columbus but west of Rock Falls. Lexington is east of Rock River but West of Columbus. Soda Springs is west of Rock Falls and Rock River. Which town is farthest west?
Sodasprings (West to east) (SS RR L C A RF)
factor x2 + 8x + 12
(x+2) (x+6)
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
A river.
What is the function of the Golgi?
The Golgi apparatus consists of stacks of flattened vesicles that have been likened to pita bread. Proteins from the ER are modified (e.g. glycosylation) and then sorted to their various specific final locations.
The goddess of hearth and home and Hera's sister.
Hestia
Caitlin has a box containing 17 forks, 24 teaspoons, and 19 tablespoons. If she chooses a utensil at random, what is the probability that she chooses a teaspoon? Express your answer as a common fraction.
2/5
Solve 25(2x-5)+6=131
x=5
What word has five letters but sounds like it only has one?
Queue
What is Newton's third law?
for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
Who was the nine-headed monster with poison breath that Hercules killed by cauterizing the heads so that they could not grow back?
Hydra