Actuary
Math Problems
Brain Teasers
100
What is data?
Data is information!
100
If a bag of balloons consists of 47 white balloons, 5 yellow balloons, and 10 black balloons, what is the approximate likelihood that a balloon chosen randomly from the bag will be black?
16%
100
Which month has 28 days?
All of them!
200
What do actuaries work to manage?
Risk
200
On a six-sided die, each side has a number between 1 and 6. What is the probability of throwing a 3 or a 4?
1 in 3
200
Which number is missing?
6
300
What is one event that an actuary might work on? (hint: we talked about this earlier in the presentation!)
Tornado, car accident, home insurance!
300
A regular deck of cards has 52 cards. Assuming that you do not replace the card you had drawn before the next draw, what is the probability of drawing three aces in a row?
1 in 5525
300
If 1=3
2=3
3=5
4=4
5=4
Then, 6=?
3, because "six" has three letters!
400
Are actuaries fortune tellers?
No! They use math to help predict future events!
400
Which number could be added to this spinner to make it more likely that the spinner will land on an odd number than a prime number?
9
400
Two girls were born to the same mother, at the same time, on the same day, in the same month and the same year and yet somehow they’re not twins. Why not?
They are triplets!
500
What is one thing that you should do before high school to get started as an actuary?
Continue attending events like this
Take math classes
Develop your computer skills
500
Three coins are tossed up in the air, one at a time. What is the probability that two of them will land heads up and one will land tails up?
3/8
500
87
Believe it or not, this “math” question actually requires no math whatsoever. If you flip the image upside down, you’ll see that what you’re dealing with is a simple number sequence.