Pascal's Triangle Quiz

What is the name of the triangle in Indian mathematics?

• Khayyam Triangle

• Yang Hui's Triangle

• Staircase of Mount Meru

• Pascal's Triangle

What is the name of the triangle in Iran?

• Yang Hui's Triangle

• Staircase of Mount Meru

• Pascal's Triangle

• Khayyam Triangle

What is the name of the triangle in China?

• Khayyam Triangle

• Pascal's Triangle

• Yang Hui's Triangle

• Staircase of Mount Meru

What is the pattern that generates Pascal's Triangle?

• Subtract the numbers in pairs

• Multiply the numbers in pairs

• Divide the numbers in pairs

• Add the numbers in pairs

What do the numbers in each row of Pascal's Triangle correspond to?

• Prime numbers

• Coefficients of a binomial expansion

• Perfect squares

• Fibonacci sequence

What do the sum of the numbers in each row of Pascal's Triangle give?

• Successive powers of two

• Successive powers of ten

• Successive powers of five

• Successive powers of three

What do the numbers in the next diagonal of Pascal's Triangle represent?

• Square numbers

• Prime numbers

• Triangular numbers

• Cube numbers

What happens when you shade in all of the odd numbers in Pascal's Triangle?

• It forms a fractal known as Dragon Curve

• It forms a fractal known as Mandelbrot Set

• It forms a fractal known as Sierpinski's Triangle

• It forms a fractal known as Koch Snowflake

What is the use of Pascal's Triangle in probability and combinatorics?

• Number theory

• Calculating probabilities

• Solving differential equations

• Graph theory

What did mathematicians recently discover about Pascal's Triangle?

• A way to expand it to new kinds of polynomials

• A way to solve the Riemann Hypothesis

• A way to convert it into a graph

• A way to calculate prime numbers