Algebra
In an ordered pair the first value is the abscissa the second value is called this.
What is the ordinate?
The integer lengths of the three sides of a triangle are 4 inches, x inches, and 9 inches. Find the least possible perimeter of the triangle.
What is 18?
Find sin 50 degrees?
What is 0.766?
He discovered the law of universal gravitation as well as a new way to calculate curves.
Who was Isaac Newton?
10 digits of pi
What is 3.1415926535?
If x-2= 64, find the value of x1/3 + x0.
What is 3?
A circular swimming pool with a diameter of 28 feet has a deck of uniform width built around it. If the area of the deck is 60(pi) square feet, find its width.
What is two feet wide?
A triangle has an adjacent side of x and the opposite is 89m, the given angle is 28 degrees. Find value of x.
What is 167.38?
He was a Muslim mathematician known as the "father of algebra."
Who was Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi?
This number is the only number spelled in alphabetical order.
What is forty?
Let the function f be defined by f(x) = 3x-1 and let the function g be defined by g(x) = x2. If m is a positive number such that f(7) = g(m) + g(2), find the value of m.
What is +4 or -4?
The ancients talked about "squaring the circle," by creating a square and a circle which have the same area. If the radius of the circle is 1, find the side length of the square?
What is the square root of pi?
A triangle has an opposite side of 23m and the hypotenuse is 32m. Find the given angle.
What is 46 degrees?
She worked for NASA as a “computer” and helped put men on the moon.
Who was Katherine Johnson?
1/100th of a second.
What is a jiffy?
A culture of 5000 bacteria triples every 15 minutes. Find the size of the bacteria population after 2 hours have elapsed.
32,805,000
The number of sides of a polygon in which the sum of the degree measures of the interior angles is 4 times the sum of the degree measures of the exterior angles?
What is 10?
Convert the radian measure to degree measure without using a calculator.
(5pi)/3
What is
300^\circ
Albert Einstein described this mathematician as “the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.”
Who was Emmy Noether?
This temperature is the same in both Celsius and Fahrenheit.
What is -40 degrees?
Working together, Bill and Tom painted a fence in 8 hours. Last year, Tom painted the fence by himself. The year before, Bill painted it by himself, but took 12 hours less than Tom took. How long did Bill and Tom take, when each was painting alone?
How does Tom take twenty-four hours, and Bill take twelve hours?
The radius of a cylinder is increased by 20% and its height is decreased by 50%. Find the effect on the volume of the cylinder.
What is the original volumed has decreased by 28%?
Assume x is an angle in standard position.
Find the quadrant in which x lies if you know that
sin x >0 and sec x <0
Quadrant II
Greek mathematician and scholar that taught at the Platonist school in Alexandria.
Who was Hypatia?
Thursday, October 15
When is World Math Day?