Mighton’s for the Love of Math
The next number in the following sequence: 63, 67, 71, ___.
What is 75?
This Italian man discovered the golden ratio, related to the sequence bearing his namesake in which each number is the sum of the previous two.
Who is Fibonacci?
Gamblers know their perms and combs. Perms, short for permutations, a set where order matters and these, a set where order does not matter.
What are combinations?
The Toronto Maple Leafs last one the Stanley Cup in 1967, this many years ago.
What is 57?
The product 6 x 90.
What is 540?
The perimeter of a rectangle whose base is 4 cm and whose length of 5 cm
What is 18 cm?
The formula relating the length of the legs of a right triangle to the length of its hypotenuse by a2 + b2 = c2 is named after this Greek mathematician born circa 570 BC.
Who is Pythagoras?
When you earn interest on both the principal and the interest, it is known as this.
What is compounding or compound interest?
The number of regulation innings in a baseball game plus the number of regulation periods in a hockey game minus the number of regulation quarters in a football game.
What is 8?
The value of x in the equation x-6=11
What is 17?
The fraction of girls in a town of which there exists a 6:7 ratio of girls to boys.
What is six thirteenths (6/13)?
Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz are credited with the development of this field of mathematics, dealing with the derivatives and integrals of functions.
What is Calculus?
The number of US states multiplied by the number of Canadian provinces and territories
What is 650?
Kevin Durant shot 10 for 15 from the field on November 2, earning this shooting percentage. You can round to the nearest percent.
What is 67%?
In the number 1,236,498, The 2 is placed in this digit.
What is the hundred thousands digit?
The number of people between the 265th and 102nd place finishers in a marathon.
What is 162?
This symbol, ∞, meaning a quantity larger than a natural number was introduced in 1655 by John Wallis
What is infinity?
This mountain, located in Nepal, stands the tallest in the world at 8,848 metres in height.
What is Mount Everest?
What is 300?
What is five elevenths (5/11)?
John Mighton, the author of the paper from which this category’s questions were based, appeared in this 1997 Best Picture-nominated film alongside Robin Williams and Matt Damon.
What is Good Will Hunting?
This number, known as the additive identity, which when added to any number results in that number remaining unchanged is believed to have first been used in India between the third and fourth centuries.
What is 0?
There are exactly this many possibilities for 4-number pins, commonly used in technology and banking.
What is 10000?
The number of penalty minutes accrued by committing 4 minor penalties and 1 five-minute major penalty for fighting in a hockey game.
What is 13?
0.431 written as a fraction.
What is four hundred thirty one thousandths (431/1000)?