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This person created the Pythagorean theorem.  

Who was Pythagoras?

100

The oldest branch of mathematics.

What is arithmetic?

100

First 10 digits of pi.

What are 3.141592653?

100
The MAT sponsor(s).

Who are Mrs. Lavin and Mr. Johnston?

100

The quadratic formula.

What is x = (-b ± √(b² - 4ac)) / 2a?

200

The field Albert Einstein contributed to other than mathematics.

What is physics?

200

The country where 0 was invented. 

What is India?

200
first 10 digits of e.

What are 2.718281828?

200

The total number of exec members this year.

What is 11?

200

Area of a hexagon.

What is (3√3 s²)/2?

300

The base number that Early Babylonians used to develop a way to tell time 

What is 60?

300

Branch of mathematics Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz both independently developed in the 17th century.

What is Calculus?

300

Roman numeral for 85.

What is LXXXV?

300

The number of MAT meetings we have this year.

What is 13?

300

All three formulas for cos(2x).

What are cos²x - sin²x, cos(2x) = 1 - 2sin²(x), 2cos²(x) - 1?

400

The father of Geometry

Who was Euclid?

400

The problem Carl Friedrich Gauss famously solved at the age of 7 involving the sum of numbers from 1 to 100.

What was the arithmetic series formula?
400

Largest 3 digit prime number.

What is 997?

400

All the classes our sponsors teach.

What are Precalculus, AP Stats, AP CSP, Alg 2 Trig Stats, AP Calc AB?

400

Law of cosines.

What is a² = b² + c² - 2bc cos(A)?

500

This person invented e.

Who is Euler?

500

Largest math prize with $1 million for solving any of seven Prize Problems.

What is the Clay Millennium Prize?

500
First number with exactly 7 factors.

What is 64?

500

The year Neuqua MAT was established.

What is 2012?
500

sin(x/2) formula

What is ±√[(1 - cosθ)/2]?