Finding solutions
y = mx + b
Tile patterns etc.
Random Mathy Stuff
Harry Potter stuff
100

Solve.

-3x + 6 = 22 + x

What is x = -4?

100

the growth rate of y = -2 + 5

 What is -2?

100

In a tile pattern, it's how you find the value of b to put into a y = mx+ b equation.

What is the number of tiles in Figure 0?

100

What is 1/3 divided by 12? 

What is 1/36?

100

Harry Potter plays this position on his Quidditch team.

What is seeker?

200

2(7c - 1) = 6c + 22

What is c = 3?

200

Of the equations below, this one goes through the origin.  

y = 3x + 1

y = 1/4 x

y = -4x -4 

What is y = 1/4x?

200

My tile pattern has 3 tiles in Figure 1 and 7 tiles in Figure 0.  This number represents its growth rate.

What is -4?

200

The perimeter of an equilateral triangle with a side of 6.2

What is 18.6?

200

Fluffy is this creature.

What is a three-headed dog?

300

x+ 4 + 2x - 4x = 1 -2x + x + 3

What is infinite solutions?

300

the "starting point", or y-intercept of a graph, is found on this axis. 

What is the y axis?

300

If a tile pattern has 1 tile in Figure 1, and its growth rate is -5, it will have this many tiles in Figure 0.

What is 6?

300
List the first 6 prime numbers.

What is 2,3,5,7,11, and 13.

300

Luna Lovegood is in this house.

What is Ravenclaw?

400

-(x-3) = 2 1/3 

What is x = 2/3?

400

For the equation y = -2x -4, give three points that will be on the line representing that rule.

What are (answers vary)?

400

If a tile pattern has 0 tiles in figure 2, and goes through the point (0,2), what is its growth rate?

What is -1?

400

Simplify - (3x - 7) + -2 + 2(3/2)

What is -3x + 8?

400

Dumbledore has a scar above his left knee that is a perfect map of this.

What is the London underground?

500

y - 1 = 2y + 4 - y + 2

What is no solution?

500

Turn the equation y = 12 - x into y = mx + b format. 

What is y = -x + 12?

500

Find the equation, in y = mx+ b form, for the tile pattern that has 2 tiles in Figure 0 and 17 tiles in pattern 3.  

What is y = 5x + 2 ?

500

The area of a triangle with a base of 4 and a height of 9.

What is 18?

500

Vernon Dursley's company produces these.

What are drills?