Thinking with Mathematical Models
What is the slope of the line y=3x+5
3
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
a^2+b^2=c^2
What is the growth factor in the following equation: y=100(12)^x?
12
What is the name of the Grinch's dog?
Who is Max?
How many minutes are in 2 and a half hours?
150 minutes
What is the y-intercept of the line y=4x-7?
-7
What is the name of the longest side of a right triangle? (Spelling counts)
Hypotenuse
What is the y-intercept of the following equation: y=0.5(7)^x
0.5
In the famous song "12 Days of Xmas", what did their true love bring on the third day?
Three French hens
Who is Selena Gomez married to?
Benny Blanco
How do you know a graph is linear?
It's graph will be a line
If the legs of a right triangle are 3 units and 4 units long, what is the length of the hypotenuse?
5 units
Write the exponential function that has a y-intercept at (0,14) and has a growth factor of 2.
y=14(2)^x
How many candles are on a menorah?
9
This is from which Harry Potter story?
He lowered the egg beneath the foamy surface,
and opened it and this time, it did not wail.
A gurgling song was coming out of it, a song
whose words he couldn’t distinguish through
the water.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
What is the slope intercept form of a line?
y=mx+b
Is 0.1212121212.... rational or irrational?
rational (it repeats)
If the growth rate is 52%, what is the growth factor?
1.52
Where was the holiday, Boxing Day, first celebrated?
United Kingdom, Great Britain, Canada, Australia
What is the acronym for the organization that fulfilled John Kennedy's pledge to land an American on the Moon by the end of the decade?
NASA
What is the equation for inverse variation?
y=k/x
What is the length of the missing leg if the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 10cm, and the other leg is 5cm? NO DECIMAL ANSWERS ALLOWED
square root of 75
If the growth factor is 8, what is the growth rate?
700%
Which president did not allows a Christmas tree to be decorated at the White House?
Theodore Roosevelt
What dish consists of melted cheese into which chunks of bread are dipped?
fondue