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100
What is the value of x in the following equation, 4x=32?
What is 8.
100
What is the volume of a cube with sides of 5cm?
What is 125cm.
100
When determining the congruency of two triangles, what do the letters SAS stand for.
What is side, angle, side.
100
Another name for an average of a set of data?
What is the mean.
100
What is the probability of drawing a red marble from a bag containing 16 red marbles and 8 purple marbles?
What is 2/3
200
Find the value of k in the equation 16 = 5k +1
What is 3?
200
What symbol is always used in any calculation involving a circle or sphere?
What is pie.
200
When determining the congruency of right angled triangles, what side has to be the same in each triangle?.
What is the hypotenuse.
200
When a letter in an equation is replaced with a number or a known value, this is known as?
What is substitution?
200
2kg of coconut juice which cost $5 per kilogram were combined with 8 kg of coconut milk which cost $3 per kg. What is the cost of the juice per kilogram
What is $3.40
300
Write 73000 in scientific notation?
What is 7.3 x10 4th.
300
560 metres will convert to how many centimetres?
What is 56,000cm.
300
What other word used in congruency theory, means the same as scale factor?
What is ratio or proportion.
300
y = mx + c will produce what type of line on a Cartesian plane?
What is straight.
300
Robert has 34 baseball cards. If he gets 16 more he will have exactly 1/5 the number of cards that Patrick has. How many cards does Patrick have?
What is 300.
400
Simplify the expression 6t + 4c -2t + 3c + 8
What is 4t +7c +8.
400
It takes 4 hours to wash every window on a building. There are 30 windows. How many minutes does it take to wash each window?
What is 8 minutes.
400
If two triangles are congruent and have internal angles of 38 and 67 degrees: how many degrees must be in the third angle?
What is 85 degrees.
400
What two words appear in the formula for the gradient of a line?
What is rise and run.
400
If an architect draws a cathedral to a scale of 1:600, what would be the height of the ceiling if the plans show it as 4cm?
What is 24m.
500
Five mice live in a mouse hole. One day they steal 500 grams of cheese from the hous eowner. Each mouse eats 5 grams of cheese a day. How long does the cheese last?
What is 20 days
500
If a cylinder has a base with an area of 20.3cm and a height of 7cm, what is its volume?
What is 142.1cm cubed.
500
If two similar triangles have corresponding sides of 3cm and 12 cm respectively; what would be the unknown side of the larger triangle if the smaller triangle had a second side of 5.5cm?
What is 22cm.
500
The process of breaking an equation into base form is known as?
What is factorisation.
500
What is the factored form of the equation y=x squared +9x +20?
(x +4) (x+5)