Ahs Mepps Mat3Bia Set 1

What ancient Chinese counting device is still frequently used today in place of a calculator?

• stylus

• abacus

• Tower of Hanoi

• compass

Answer explanation

https://www.cuemath.com/learn/abacus-history/

Archimedes requested that his tombstone commemorate his being the first to determine the formula for what?

• area of a circle

• volume of a cone

• sum of an arithmetic series

• volume of a sphere

Answer explanation

https://thatsmaths.com/2019/11/28/archimedes-and-the-volume-of-a-sphere/

• Albert Einstein

• Euclid

• Leonhard Euler

• Paul Erdos

Answer explanation

https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/e-eulers-number.html

Which of the following quantities was unknown to the Greeks?

Answer explanation

https://nrich.maths.org/articles/history-negative-numbers

• Taraglia

• Fibonacci

• Cavalieri

• Taylor

Answer explanation

https://mathcenter.oxford.emory.edu/site/math125/fibonacciRabbits/

What are the first four triangular numbers?

• 3,6,10,15

• 1,3,6,9

• 3,6,9,12

• 1,3,6,10

Answer explanation

Which of the following books was NOT written by Leonardo de Pisa?

• Liber Abaci

• Liber Quadratorum

• Liber Tris

• Flos

Answer explanation

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fibonacci/

The popular Monty Hall Problem was originally popularized by Monty Hall, who was the host of which television game show?

• The Price is Right

• Wheel of Fortune

• Deal or No Deal

• Let's Make a Deal

Answer explanation

https://statisticsbyjim.com/fun/monty-hall-problem/

Isaac Newton used the word "fluxion" to denote what common calculus term?

• integral

• derivative

• limit

• maximum

Answer explanation

https://www.statisticshowto.com/fluxion-simple-definition/

What letter is found in the spelling of every odd number?

• A

• E

• I

• O