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Q: What 18th century Swiss mathematician introduced much of the modern mathematical
terminology and notation? A solid geometric formula named for him is commonly written
as v − e + f = 2.
A: Leonhard Euler
Q: Who first presented geometry in an ideal axiomatic form? His presentation of this form in
Elements of Geometry eventually led to a branch of geometry being named for him.
A: Euclid
Q: What branch of geometry deals with three-dimensional figures and surfaces? In other
contexts, then same modifier describes a common state of matter.
A: solid
A: Pentagon
A: 150 degrees
A: 160 degrees
A: 30 degrees
A: 14
Q: In degrees, what is the sum of the angles of all faces of a regular tetrahedron?
A: 720 degrees
A: 48 degrees
Q: Four of the interior angles of a hexagon are 100, 91, 124, and 87 degrees. What is the
average of measure of the remaining angles?
A: 159 degrees
Q: Five of the interior angles of a hexagon are 100, 90, 120, 170, and 92 degrees. What is the
measure of the fifth angle?
A: 148 degrees
Q: Determine the distance between the origin and (7, 10, 12).
Q: Determine the distance between the origin and (8, 12, 16).
Q: Determine the distance between the origin and (8, 10, 12).
Q: Determine the distance between the origin and (-5, -4, -3).
A: 6
Q: Determine the distance between the points (1, -10) and (4, 8)
Q: Determine the distance between the points (1, 2, 3) and (7, 8, 9).
Q: Determine the distance between the points (-2, 2, 4) and (3, -3, 8).
Q: Determine the distance between the points (3, 6) and (4, -10). Simplify completely, as
necessary.
Q: Determine the equation of the line passing through the origin and (-3, 8). Express the
equation in y = mx + b form.
Q: Determine the equation of the line passing through the points (0, 4) and (8, 3). Express
the equation in y = mx + b form.
A: y = -1/8x + 4
Q: Determine the equation of the line passing through the points (1, 1) and (-3, 8). Express
the equation in y = mx + b form using improper fractions, if necessary.
A: y = -7/4x + 11/4
Q: A cube and a sphere have equal volumes. Determine the edge length of the cube if the
surface area of the sphere is 400 pi square meters. Rationalize the denominator if needed.
Q: A cube and a cylinder have equal volumes. Determine the edge length of the cube if the
height of the cylinder is 10 centimeters, and the radius is 5 centimeters.
Q: What is the volume of a cone if its height and diameter are the same as a cylinder with a
volume of 630 cubic centimeters?
Q: What is the total surface area of a cube if a face diagonal has a length of 4 times the square
root of 3 inches?
Q: The two legs of a right triangle have lengths equal to the two smallest prime numbers
greater than 10. Determine the length of the hypotenuse.
Q: The two legs of a right triangle have lengths equal to the two smallest prime numbers
greater than 15. Determine the length of the hypotenuse.
Q: Two legs of a right triangle measure 9 and 18 inches. Determine the length of the
hypotenuse.
Q: Two legs of a right triangle measure 15 and 17 inches. Determine the length of the
hypotenuse.
A: 17 (units)
Q: Given a right triangle with a height of 8 units, what is the length of the hypotenuse if the
area of the triangle is 64 square units?
Q: The hypotenuse of a 30-60-90 right triangle is 20 feet. What is the area of the triangle?
Q: The area of a circle is 48 square inches. What is the area within a 15 degree arc?
A: 2 square inches
Q: Determine the lateral area of a cylinder with a height of 7 inches and a radius of 40 inches.
Leave your answer in terms of pi.
Q: What is the lateral area of a cube with an edge length of square root of 7 inches?
A: 28 square inches
Q: What is the surface area of a cube if its volume is 343 cubic inches?
Q: Determine the radius of a sphere if the numeric values for the surface area and volume are
the same.
A: 3
Q: The height of a trapezoid is 2 times the lower base plus 4 centimeters, and the upper base is
3 times the lower base. What is the area of the trapezoid if the upper base is 15
centimeters?
Q: Determine the equation of a hyperbola with center at the origin, one vertex at (7, 0) and a
focus at (12, 0).
A: 3 pi over 8 radians
Q: If the compliment of the supplement of an angle is 65 degrees, what is the original angle?
A: 155 degrees
Q: If the compliment of the supplement of an angle is 12 degrees, what is the original angle?
A: 102 degrees
Q: If the Supplement of the compliment of an angle is 148 degrees, what is the original angle?
A: 58 degrees
A: 4th
Q: If the supplement of the compliment of an angle is 158 degrees, what is the original angle?
A: 68 degrees
Q: What is the length of the altitude drawn to the hypotenuse in an isosceles right triangle
with a hypotenuse of 10 inches?
A: 5 inches
Q: Give the ratio of radii of two spheres is 7 to 4. What is the ratio of their volumes?
A: 343 to 64
Q: Given that the hypotenuse of a 30-60-90 triangle is 15, find the following, expressing
answers as improper fractions, and rationalizing where appropriate.
1. 15/2
2. 15 times the square root of 3 over 2
3. 225 times the square root of 3 over 8.
4. 45 + 15 times the square root of 3 all over 2 or
45/2 + 15 times the square root of 3 over 2
Q: Given that the hypotenuse of a 30-60-90 triangle is 16, find the following:
1. 8
2. 8 times the square root of 3
3. 32 times the square root of 3
4. 24 + 8 times the square root of 3
Q: A right triangle with legs of 4 and 7 is inscribed in a circle. Express answers as improper
fractions, as necessary:
1. Focus, directrix
2. Transverse axis, asymptotes
3. Center, radius
4. Vertices, major axis
1. Parabola
2. Hyperbola
3. Circle
4. Ellipse
1. Point
2. Line
3. Dihedral
4. Adjacent
Q: Given a rhombus ABCD with diagonals that intersect at E. Angle ECB is 70 degrees. Find
the measures of the following:
1. ACD
2. DEC
3. EDC
4. ABC
1. 70
2. 90
3. 20
4. 40
Q: The length of a rectangle is 13 cm more than twice the width. The perimeter is 62 cm.
1. 25 cm
2. 6 cm
3. 150 square cm
4. 7050 cubic cm
1. 15 cm
2. 5 cm
3. 75 square cm
4. 750 cubic cm
Q: Determine the distances between the following points in spaces of various dimensions.
1. 17
2. 10
3. 9
4. 2 times the square root of 69
5. square root of 565
6. 3 times the square root of 3
7. square root of 62
8. 4 times the square root of 2
Q: Given a circle whose center is (4,5), and passes through (0,7), find the following, leaving
answers in terms of pi where applicable:
Q: Determine the equation of the lines passing through these pairs of points. Express your
answers in y = mx + b form, leaving fractions in improper form, as necessary.
1. y = 3/5 x + 13/5
2. y = 4/9 x + 70/9
3. y = -x + 3
4. y = 35/6 x - 19/6
Q: Given a cone with a base diameter of 60 units and a height of 40 units. Find the following,
leaving answers in terms of pi, where necessary:
1. Slant height
2. Lateral area
3. Volume
4. Surface Area
1. 50 units
2. 1500 pi square units
3. 12000 pi cubic units
4. 2400 pi square units
Q: A square is inscribed in a circle with an area of 1089 pi square inches. Find the following:
1. 33 inches
2. 33 times the square root of 2 inches
3. 2178 square inches
4. 1243 square inches
Q: A square is inscribed in a circle with an area of 625 pi. Find the following:
1. 25
2. 25 times the square root of 2
3. 1250
4. 713
General Math
Q: Compute the difference between the geometric mean of 16 and 19, and the arithmetic mean
of the same numbers. Express your answers as a mixed number , if necessary.
A: 1/2
Q: Compute the product between the geometric mean of 12 and 10 multiplied by the
arithmetic mean of the same two numbers.
Q: What type of number is defined as one which equals the sum of its proper divisors,
excluding itself?
A: Perfect
A: 100
A: 147
A: 0.333
A: 6.4
Q: Calculate the square root of 7.5 to the nearest hundreth.
A: 2.74
A: 0.62
Q: What is the base ten equivalent of the base seven number six four?
A: 46
A: 110
A: 160
A: 58
2. Math/General Math
A: 1C
Q: Sum the base eight integers four four and two two and convert the answer to base 10.
A: 54
Q: If a person is two zero years old in hexadecimal, how old is he in decimal form?
A: 32 (years)
Q: Sum the hexadecimal number 1 A with the binary number 1 0 0 and express your answer
in decimal form.
A: 30
Q: Subtract the value of the Roman numeral C from the hexadecimal digit C, giving your
answer in decimal form.
A: -88
Q: Determine the value of the quantity x cubed times x to the -3 power, close quantity,
factorial.
A: 1
Q: Sum 3 cubed plus 4 to the 4th plus 5 to the first plus 5 to the zero power.
A: 289
Q: If a series of 96 objects is divided into three portions in a ratio of eight to three to one.
How many objects make up the largest portion?
A: 64
A: 1/72
A: 0
A: 3/16
A: 5/7776
A: 1/324
Q: Given that 5 consecutive flips of a fair coin turn up tails, what is the probability that the
next 3 tosses will be tails?
A: 1/8
A: 10 trillion
A: 15/26
A: 5
Q: Compute the mean of this set of numbers: -3, 0, 4, 8, 11, 16, and 20.
A: 8
Q: How many points are required to define a plane, assuming that not all are collinear?
A: 3
Q: The modulus of a complex number is a synonym for what two word term? For real
numbers, the same term refers to the numerical value of a number without regard to
its sign.
A: Absolute value
Q: Calculate the square roots of the following to the nearest whole number:
1. 1369 1. 37
2. 1370 2. 37
3. 9000 3. 95
4. 0.0009 4. 0.03
Q: Compute the square roots of the following numbers to the nearest hundredth:
1. 98 1. 9.90
2. 108 2. 10.39
3. 115 3. 10.72
4. 133 4. 11.53
Q: Given the following set of numbers: 1, 6, 3, 9, 9, 15, 10, 11. Find the following:
1. mean 1. 8
2. mode 2. 9
3. median 3. 9
4. standard deviation 4. square root of 71 over 2
Q: Given the following set of numbers: 1, 2, 3, 8, 8, 17, 18, 23. Find the following:
1. mean 1. 10
2. mode 2. 8
3. median 3. 8
4. range 4. 22
Q: Convert the following decimal numbers to hexadecimal:
1. 13 1. D
2. 40 2. 2 8
3. 100 3. 6 4
4. 512 4. 2 0 0
1. Euclid
2. Diophantus
3. Thales
4. Pierre de Fermat
Computer Science
Q: What type of number is a digital representation for a rational number, often used to
approximate an arbitrary number on a computer? The slang term “flops” is a acronym for
operations on these numbers per second.
A: floating point
A: Java
A: cryptography
Q: What is the name of the most recent Microsoft Windows operating system, which was
released in January 2007?
A: Vista
1. ABEND
2. DOS
3. Kbps, with only the “K” capitalized
4. KBps, with both the “K” and “B” capitalized
1. Abnormal End
2. Disk Operating System or Denial Of Service
3. Kilobits per second
4. Kilobytes per second