Math Club Fun Facts
When was ACS International Math Club established? (answer the year)
2025
Find ?
1+1=5
2+2=20
3+3=45
4+4=?
80
Solve √(2025)
45
Who is known as the Father of Geometry?
Euclid
State the first 10 digits of pi
3.141592653
During a math club session, the club spends 1/5 of the total time solving a puzzle, 60% of the total time working on a group task, and the remaining time discussing the answers. How long (in minutes) does the club spend discussing the answers?
Hint: How long is one math club session?
15 minutes
(one session is 75minutes from 3.45pm-5pm, so 20% of the time is spent for discussing the answer)
2 students from school A, 3 students from school B, and 4 students from school C participated in a math competition.
During the competition, 3 of the students fell asleep. Assuming that the sleepers were determined randomly, find the probability (in fractions) that exactly 2 out of 3 sleepers were from the same school.
55 / 84
((3√(total number of houses in our school))2)3
64
Who is the famous English mathematician credited as the inventor of calculus?
Sir Isaac Newton
Between 4:00 PM and 4:50 PM, the minute hand of the clock covers how many degrees?
300˚
How many posts are there in our Math Club Instagram Page? (no searching!!)
14
On a certain road, the probability that a car will pass within 30 minutes is 95%. What is the probability in percentage that a car will pass within 10 minutes, rounded to 2 decimal places?
63.16%
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Find the area of the blue shaded region in terms of pi.
45pi
A 20% discount is followed by another 20% discount. Is the total discount 40%? If not, what is it?
Nope, it's a 36% discount total.
What is the square root of -1 called?
i (imaginary number)
What was our club’s first school-wide event called?
Math Week
There’s a book with a leaf torn from it. The sum of the numbers on the remaining page is 15000. What are the page numbers on the torn leaf?
25 and 26
Write
√(6+4√2) in the form of a+√b
2+√2
OR
a = 2, b = 2
Google Maps usually doesn't give you all the possible routes.
What branch of mathematics helps it find the fastest path efficiently?
Graph theory:
shortest-path algorithms
If 10 people each shake hands with every other person exactly once, how many handshakes occur?
45
What are the 2 mathematical notations in our club’s profile picture?
Sigma and infinity
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The domain of the function is as follows. What is a+d?
(0,1/2)U(1/2,3]
Thus, a+d = 0+3 = 3
How many trailing 0s (consecutive 0s at the end of a number) in 100! ?
24
Which famous theorem remained unproved for over 350 years before Andrew Wiles solved it?
Fermat's Last Theorem
What is the sum of the first 20 odd numbers?
20^2 = 400